Price, 
Seafon. 
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is on the point of failing, a frefh clean falmon will 
fell from a fhilling to eighteen pence a pound, and 
moft of the time that this part of the trade is carried 
on, the prices are from five to nine fhillings per 
{tone *, the value rifing and falling according to the 
plenty of fith, or the profpect of a fair or foul wind. 
Some fifh are fent in this manner to London the lat- 
ter end of September, when the weather grows cool, 
but then the fifh are full of large roes, grow very 
thin bellied, and are not efteemed either palatable 
or wholefome. — 
The price of frefh fifth in the month of Fuly, when 
they are moft plentiful, has been known to be as low 
as 8d. per ftone, but laft year never lefs than 16d. 
and from that to 25. 6d. 
The feafon for fifhing in the Tweed begins No- 
vember the 30th, but the fifhermen work very little 
till after Chrifimas ; it ends on Michaelmas-Day ; 
yet the corporation of Berwick (who are confervators 
of the river) indulge the fifhermen with a fortnight 
paft that time, on account of the change of the 
ftyle. 
There are on the river forty-one confiderable fith- 
eries extending upwards, about fourteen miles from 
the mouth (the others above being of no great va- 
tue) which are rented for near 5400/. per annum. 
The expences attending the fervants wages, nets, 
boats, &c. amount to 5000/. more, which together 
makes up the fum 10400/. Now in confequence 
* A ftone of falmon weighs 181b. 100z. 4, or in other 
terms, four itones, or fifty-fix pounds avoirdupoife, is only 
three ftones, or forty-two pounds, fith weight at Berawick, 
the 
