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triotic body, the British Fishery Society, has endeavoured 

 to supply, partially, the defects at Wick — in consequence 

 of the backwardness of the Government — and has applied 

 for an act to authorise the enlarging and improving 

 Wick or Pulteney Town harbour, but has met with 

 much unmerited opposition, which might have been 

 avoided had the Government acted upon the unanimous 

 opinion of those gentlemen best acquainted with the im- 

 portance of erecting such a harbour there. 



