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will make 8 ton or 64 barrels, and the price 

 61. the 1000, making lid. each barrel, 20 

 hoops to the barrel, at 6d. 



500 boats, laft year, at $ men £. 2,500 



Men on more faking - - 300 



In gutting a little boy, 10 or 12 years old, 



at a halfpenny a 100, will earn iod. a 



day. 

 60 fhips, at 10 men - 600 



Twine of a 40s. ftand of nets, 20s. therefore 

 20s. for labour -, 271b. of flax, fpun into 16 or 

 1 8 lb. of twine, make a ftand. 



Mr. Alexander began the fifhery in 1773, 

 when he employed two iloops only, each of 40 

 tons. In 1774, he employed the two iloops 

 and a brig of 100 tons, the latter of which he 

 fent to Antigua with 650 barrels, befides what 

 he fold at home, and loaded the iloops in bulk 

 for the coaft trade. In 1775, ne na ^ tne f am e 

 brig and three iloops, and loaded all four in 

 bulk for the coaft trade -, one of which on her 

 voyage was put afhore at Black Sod, in the 

 county of Mayoj and though the iloop was 

 not the Jeaft injured, the country came down, 

 obliged the crew to go on ihore, threatening to 

 murder them if they did not, and then not 

 only robbed the veffel of her cargo, but of 

 every portable material. The cargo was 40 

 ton, or 160,000 herrings. Beiides what was 

 fent coaftwife this year, he exported on board 

 his fhip, the Alexander, 340 tons, not in the 



herring 



