a2 8 LOCH S WILLY. 



of veflels for the herring fifhery ; it begins the 



middle of October, and ends about Chriftmas $ 



it has been 5 years rifing to what it is at pre- 



fent •, laft year 500 boats were employed in it : 



the farmers and coaft inhabitants build and 



fend them out, and either fifh on their own 



account, or let them; but the latter moil 



common. Five men take a boat, each man 



half a fhare, each net half and the boat a 



whole one. A boat cofts iol. on an average, 



each has 6 ftand of nets at 2I. In a middling 



year each boat will take 6000 herrings a night, 



during the feafon, 6 times a week, the price 



on an average 4s. 2d. a 1000 from the water, 



home confumption takes the moft, and the 



(hipping which lies here for the purpofe the 



reft. 



The (hips on the flation for buying are from 

 20 to 100 tons, and have the bounty of 20s. 

 a ton. 



By the ad they are to be built fince the year 

 1776, each has one or two boats for fifhing ; 

 alfo for the firft 20 tons they muft have 8 men, 

 and 2 to every 8 ton above 20. The mer- 

 chants who have the mips, both buy of the 

 country boats and fifh themfelves : they both 

 cure for barrel and in bulk that is falted in the 

 hold of a fhip ; a ton of fait will cure 10,000 

 herrings, 500 herrings in a barrel of thofe of 

 Loch-fwilly, but 800 at Killybegs. They 

 made their own barrels of American ftaves, 

 but now of fir j 1000 ftaves, Philadelphia, 



will 



