A General View of the Fishery of Great Britain: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Undertakers of the North British Fishing, Lately Begun for Promoting the General Utility of the Inhabitants and Empire at Large
A General View of the Fishery of Great Britain: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Undertakers of the North British Fishing, Lately Begun for Promoting the General Utility of the Inhabitants and Empire at Large
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. VI. The extensive Trade and Commerce, Wealth, . Perseverance of the Dutch, and others; xoith their careful Mode of conducting all their Business. X. HE Dutch are supposed to have taken their idea of the fishing trade from the early and profitable trade and commerce carried on by the Scotch, on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. VI. The extensive Trade and Commerce, Wealth, . Perseverance of the Dutch, and others; xoith their careful Mode of conducting all their Business. X. HE Dutch are supposed to have taken their idea of the fishing trade from the early and profitable trade and commerce carried on by the Scotch, on the east coast of Scotland, as early as the ninth century, with the Germans and Fleemings, and in a much later period by the subjects of Queen Mary and James the Sixth of Scotland; and when an opportunity offered, they were ripe for making the experiment of fishing themselves, and found benefit from their attempt. Necessity forced them to hazard their safety on these boisterous elements, and their great gain prompted them to pursue it vigorously, and the result manifests to the world, that they have done it to to the purpose, from the several advantages arising from it. And therefore they are wisely determined to continue by it, and allow nothing to interrupt it, either by force or fraud; as they have avowedly declared to the world in their publications at the Hague, 19th of July, 1614, inwhich they declare that the fishery is their chiefest trade, and principal gold mine of these United States, whereby many thousands of households, families, and craftsmen are maintained: they are determined to oppose 11 such as either from envy, or by other sinister modes, attempt to destroy it, &c. This bold defiance, together with many regulations of the Dutch, especially respecting the salts, their fish, and due order of discipline kept among the different classes of sailors, is truly admirable. Salt in Britain, anno 1600, to the year 1697, amounted only to 50 shillings, or 3, particularly the white salt, or Bay salt, and often under that...
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