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292 Pot Eb C HW A Rep. Clafs IV. 
«¢ Tt employs a great number of men on the fea, 
training them thereby to naval affairs; employs 
men, women, and children, at land, in falting, 
preffing, wafhing, and cleaning, in making 
boats, nets, ropes, cafks, and all the trades de- 
pending on their conftruction and fale. The 
poor is fed with the offals of the captures, the 
and with the refufe of the fifh and falt, the mer- 
chant finds the gains of commiffion and honeft 
commerce, the fifherman the gains of the fith.. 
Ships are often freighted hither with falt, and 
into foreign countries with the fifh, carrying off 
at the fame time part of our tin. The ufual 
produce of the number of hogfheads exported 
each year, for ten years, from 1747 to 1756 in- 
clufive, from the four ports of Fawy, Falmouth, 
Penzance, and St. Ives, it appears that Fawy has 
exported yearly 1732 hogtheads; Falmouth, 
14631 hoefheads and two-thirds, Penzance and 
Mounts-Bay, 12149 hogfheads and one-third; 
St. Ives, 1282 hogfheads: in all amounting to 
29795 hogfheads. Every hogfhead for ten years 
laft paft, together with the bounty allowed for 
each hogfhead exported, and the oil made out — 
of each hogfhead, has amounted, one year with 
another at an average, to the price of one pound 
thirteen fhillings and three-pence; fo that the 
cafh paid for pilchards exported has, at a medium, 
annually amounted to the fum of forty-nine thou- 
fand five hundred and thirty-two pounds ten 
s fhillings.” 
The 
