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TurnbuU & Co., in which could be smoked 1,300,000. 

 And this same year there were the following numbers 

 of boats on the Fife coast in the herring-fishery, — viz., 

 from Crail, 11 boats ; Cellardyke, 15 ; Pittenweem, 4 ; 

 St Monance, 15. But it is worthy of remark, that at 

 this time none of the curers prepared red herrings in 

 that part of the Firth. 



The Scottish herring-fishery had, however, no small 

 difficulty to contend with in the fisheries which were 

 carried on by other nations. At Gothenburg, and other 

 parts in Sweden, a successful fishery had been carried on 

 for several years, and the exports were considerably more 

 than from this country ; and it may be useful to give a 

 comparative statement of the quantities exported from 

 the two countries in the following six years, ending with 

 1781 :— 



And besides the quantity sold fresh and smoked in Swe- 

 den, it was calculated that in one year 1,066,000 barrels 

 of herrings had been boiled down in Sweden for the 

 purpose of producing oil ; the number of barrels of oil 

 obtained from that quantity having been 44,000, which 

 were prepared at 429 oil-boiling houses, having in all 

 1812 boilers or kettles. 



Although the fishery was flourishing in Sweden, Hol- 

 land seems to have had fewer busses than before, for in 

 1784 there were only 270 busses sent from the ports of 

 that country to the deep sea herring-fishery. 



