SALMON FISHERY. 143 



From Dr. Fuller's HISTORY OF BERWICK, 







P- 395- 



Fifty years ago, the veffels, employed to carry 

 falmon from Berwick to London, generally took 

 feveral weeks in performing the voyage. They 

 were well- veffels, of about forty tons burden each. 

 Thefe veffels belonged to Harwick and Graves- 

 end ; and as they came here folely on account of 

 the falmon trade, they always went away again at 

 the clofe of the fiihing feafon, and two of the 

 largeft remained all the winter, for the purpofe al- 

 ready mentioned. There are at prefent twenty- 

 one fmacks employed by two filhing companies of 

 this place, in that trade, and in carrying other 

 goods to and from London and Leith. 



The confequence of the lalmon-fifhing here, 

 may appear from the following tolerable exaft 

 itatement. The yearly rental of the fifheries in 

 the Tweed, for the courfe of a few miles, amounted 

 to between 7000 and Soool. in which between 

 Icventy-five and eighty boats, with about 300 men, 

 are conftantly employed during the falmon fifhery, 

 between the loth of January and the loth of 

 October. There have been known to have been 

 40,000 kits, or upwards (of pickled falmon), fent 

 from this town in the courfe of the feafon, befides 



a vail 



