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fells them for half price. In this manner of 

 fifhing, the boats catch each, on an average, 

 100,000 herrings, which is 1600 herrings a 

 night, but the common boats of the country, 

 not fo well fitted up, take only 80,000. They 

 are cured in bulk, that is packed into the holds 

 of the velTels, from 20 to 100 tons each, and are 

 fold all over the coaft of Ireland. The quan- 

 tity of fait neceiTary to the 80,000 herrings, 

 which each boat catches, is 7 tons, at the price 

 of 2I. 14s. a ton 5 this is the price, at which 

 Mr. Montgomery fells, who has eftablifhed con- 

 fiderable falt-works, making 450 tons annually, 

 and has by this means reduced the fait, from 

 3I. 1 os. to 5 1, down to 2I. 14s. The veftels em- 

 ployed on this fifhery, fox the bounty, are from 

 30 to 100 tons. A vefTel of 100 tons, carries 

 fa bulk, 500,000 herrings, or the produce of five 

 boats ; thefe calculations are in reference only to 

 the average of nights andfeafons; Mr Nefbit's 

 vefTel, of 60 tons, has been loaded by four boats, 

 in three nights, and Mr. Montgomery has 

 taken 100,000 in one night, with two nets, 

 but thefe are extraordinary inftances. The par- 

 liamentary bounty is 20s. a ton, but there muft 

 be four men for the rirfi 20 tons, and one for 

 every 8 tons over, the owners of the veifels em- 

 ploy no more boats, than to enable them, by the 

 crews, to draw the bounty-, and what thefe 

 men are not able to get, they buy of the coun- 

 try boats, at an av, rage of 5s. a 1000, which 

 all are clear, anfwers much better than having 

 boats of their own. 



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