232 D E R R Y. 



Calculation of the expenfes of this bufinefs, fup. 

 pojing 1 00,000 herrings cured every day. 



Buildings, 500I. intereft of that fum, at 10 



per cent. - - - - - 50 00 

 This high rare of intereft is reckoned on 

 account of the precarioufnefs of all herring- 

 fimeries, as they frequent and forfake feas 

 and bays ; and if they were to quit Loch' 

 Swilly, the buildings would be of little ufe 

 but to let for a trifle as cabbins. 



18 Boats, atiol. - - 180 o o 

 90 Hands of nets, at 40s. 180 o o 



£-3 6 ° 



Intereft, at 6 per cent. 

 Repairing the boats, 40s. each 

 Ditto nets, they laft but two feafons 

 Wages of 90 fifhermen, at is. 66. a day, 



8 weeks - 324 o o 



£. 521 12 o 



N. B. At this expenfe of fifhing, the 

 prime coft of the herrings, fuppole 6000 

 taken by each boat a night, is is. per 1000 : 

 but it muft be obvious that the boats cannot 

 always go out, neither will hired men fifti 

 for their mafters, as they will for themfelves. 

 Hence the merchant may find it more advan- 

 tageous to buy at 4s. 2d. than to depend en- 

 tirely on his own boats, 



Wage* 



