220 CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HERRING-FISHERY. 



' a great impediment to their active exertions ; and their 

 ' being collected into fishing towns and villages would 

 ' be the means of forming a nursery of hardy seamen for 

 ' his Majesty's navy, and the defence of the kingdom.' 



A capital of L.150,000 was subscribed, and a commit- 

 tee of this Society visited personally the coasts of Scot- 

 land, and resolved, after full deliberation, to purchase 

 ground and build villages at Ullapool in Eoss-shire, on 

 the northern coast of Scotland ; at Tobermory, in the 

 Island of Mull, Hebrides ; and at Lochbuy, on the 

 western side of the Isle of Skye. At these places they 

 soon afterwards not only built dwellings for the inhabi- 

 tants, but also quays and harbours, as well as store- 

 houses, where materials necessary for the fisheries might 

 be deposited and sold to the people ; and sums of money 

 to the extent of L.lOO to L.200 were lent to enterprising 

 individuals to enable them to prosecute the fishery. 



At Tobermory 2000 acres of land were obtained for the 

 payment of L.500 for part, and L.78, 17s. of annual quit 

 rent, and the sum of L.4032, 15s. 7d. was expended in 

 houses and quays. At Lochbuy 1474 acres of land were 

 obtained for the small quit rent of L.49, Os. lid. per 

 annum, and the Society expended L.1080 on schoolhouse, 

 storehouses, and quays. At Ullapool 1031 acres were 

 purchased for a quit rent of L.50, 9s. lid., and the So- 

 ciety expended about L.5000 on a harbour ; the total 

 expenditure for it, the dwelling-houses, church, store- 

 houses, &c., amounted to L.7778, 4s. 8d. 



The Society had subscribed or raised L.41,081, 5s. 8d., 

 and expended L.22,015, 12s. lOd ; and to induce the in- 

 habitants of the neighbourhood to settle at these locali- 

 ties, building lots were given at the rate of 6d., 2d., Id., 

 per foot frontage of annual rent — garden ground from one- 



