HERRING FISHERY. 



and partly becaufe, before they had rifen to fo great a price, they 

 afforded with a few potatoes, not only a wholefome but a cheap 

 meal. In the Roman Catholic part of Germany, the want of 

 fifli for the fall days occafions an additional demand for them ; 

 but, on the other hand, this additional demand is rendered lefs 

 powerful in its operation, by the circumftance that the Roman Ca- 

 tholic part of Germany lies wholly to the fouth, the confequence 

 of which is, that the length of the land carriage greatly enhances 

 the price of herrings before they arrive there. 



Do you know of any inftance of Britifh herrings being fent to 

 Germany Did the attempt fucceed 1 and what were the caufes 

 of its fuccefs or failure ? 



Since I have been acquainted with Germany, I have not heard 

 of any importation of Britilh herrings into that country before 

 the latter end of 1798, when a veflel arrived from Ifle Martin in 

 Loch Broom, laden with 301 barrels; and about the fame time a 

 veflel arrived at Hamburgh from Greenock, with 30 barrels on 

 board. Of the quality of the herrings brought from Ifle Martin 

 or of the price which they fetched, I was not able to gain infor- 

 mation ; but as no veflel came from Ifle Martin in the following 

 year, 1799, it is probable that the herrings which had been 

 brought in 1798, were not cured in fuch a manner as to fetch a 

 price which made it worth while to make a fecond voyage to Ham- 

 burgh. In 1799 were brought to Hamburgh from Leith 664 

 Wrels, from Alloa 260, a lading from Stornoway, and fome 

 iading.from Shetland, making together (namtly, from Shetland ) 

 1, 208 barrels.' Thefe brought from the Firth of Forth, as well 

 as thofe brought from Stornoway, I have mentioned above ; of 

 the reft I could get no other account, than that they were not 

 fuitable to the tafte of the Germans. In addition to the prece- 

 ding, twelve barrels of herrings from Greenock were fent for on 

 trial, by a Saxon merchant ; fix of them were north highland, 

 and fi-< were Loch Fyne herrings ; they were all large herrings, 

 "hufr were far from being fo fat as the beft Dutch herrings ; the 



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