94 COD FISHERY. 



In fome places, the fifhery can be carried on 

 early in the year, fometimes, as early as the 

 month of January ; the traders, that go to thofe 

 feas, can get the ftart of the Newfoundland 

 fifhers, who cannot eflablifh themfelves on the 

 bank, before April or May ; but then the traders 

 ftiould agree among themfelves, that, as foon as be- 

 tween them all they had caught enough for one 

 cargo, the veflel fliould be difpatched to the port, 

 where they intend to difpofe of it. 



The moil ufual places for carrying on this 1 ' 

 fifhery, are Iceland, Ferol, Shetland, Denmark, 

 Norway, and Kola in Ruffia. But one of the 

 bed fituations for foreigners, is a. bank, or 

 reef, between the fmall ifland of Ingland^ and 

 the coaft of "Jutland^ which, being very elevated, 

 defends them from florms. The Englifh, French, 

 Dutch, Hamburghers, &c. go to the North, not 

 only to Mi for cod, but likewife to purchafe that, 

 which has been taken and cured by the inhabitants 

 of thofe. countries. Some French traders go with 

 fmall veflels of, from twenty to fifty tons burden, 

 but thefe dont go farther than Shetland, where, 

 befides fifliing themfelves, they barter provifions 

 for full. They fet out about the latter end of 

 April, and return about the latter end of July. 

 The Dutch, befides the trade, which they carry 

 on with the Icelanders, and other natipns of the 

 North, fijQa in the Iceland and Shetland fea. They 



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