i 9 o PORT A FERRY. 



time before they work, but they laft longer 

 than lime, directly contrary to what I was told 

 before, from whence one may fuppofe the 

 point difputable. Rents 16s. to 20s. Re- 

 marked feveral great rocks on the fhore, which 

 feem to have no connection with the coalt, 

 which is not rocky, nor at all in unifon with 

 fuch fragments. 



Reached Portaferry, the town and feat of 

 Patrick Savage, Efq; who took every means of 

 procuring me information concerning that 

 neighbourhood. 



July 29th, collected fome concerning the 

 fifheries. It is a fummer herring-fiihery for 

 the home confumption of the country ; they 

 are now taken chiefly off the peninfula of 

 Ards. Formerly the great take was in the 

 Loch, till within thefe 4 years. To the whole 

 coaft they reckon that there are 400 boats ; 

 they are of 4 or 5 ton burthen, and coft 1 5I. 

 a boat, the nets coft iol. and there are 4 to 

 each b©at. A boat will catch 6 maze of her- 

 rings in a night, each 500 ; and they fell at 

 8s. 8d. a maze on an average : it is, however, 

 a precarious flfhery. Ini774itwas very good: 

 in 1775 very bad ; this year it has begun fine- 

 ly. It begins the 12th of July, and finifhes 

 the end of September. It is in general carri- 

 ed on by fhares ; the boat and nets have one 

 half, and the 4 men the other half. They 

 earn, upon an average, il, is. each a week by 

 it : 1 10 boats belong to Portaferry. . The men 



are 



