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Rh In one of their mall fihing-boats, rowing with two men, ometimes with four, they do uually bring to hore, every morning that they go to ea, 50 or 60 ling and cod, and they take many barrels of herrings: For the Hollanders bues driving at ea do break the hole, and then the herrings fly near the hore through the ounds, where the Scots: take them with their mall boats and nets. Had they better tackling they would do better, p. 256, 257. ''And, which is more than all, they have skilful and hardy fihers to endure wind and weather, and to be content with their own proviions. Here a London-pure, or a full Englih-pure, would do wonders; and the time draws near to prepare for the buines. In Shetland they had then fat oxen at 3 l. each oxe; fat heep at 2 s. or 2 s. 6 d. each fat heep; conies, eaie to be taken in abundance; and fowl, &c. p.'' 257. He bought in the Ile of Ount 11655 gild ling of the largest ize, (if maller, he had two for one, or three for two,) and 835 gild cod, which are the larget cod, all taken by the inhabitants of Ount; all brought to his booth, or the place of his abode, as oon as they were caught, every morning. The large gild ling did cot him but 3 d. a-piece; the gild cod but 2 d. a-piece. They were alted aboard the hip, p. 254. Muffet values a ling of 2 years old at a Noble, as the uual rate in his time, about 60 years ince, or upwards; and the price of fleh in London, and other parts of England, may now jutly raie the price of fih.

Our Author goes on to hew, that trading is the life of all the habitable world; how it firt raied the Venetians, then the Genouee, next the Portuguee, then the Eaterlings, latly the Hollanders above all, by the fihery, p. 258, 259, &c. He proves by accurate Intances, and grounded Calculations, that (o long ago) Hollanders, and other Foreigners, gained by their fihery from the coats of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to the value of millions of pounds yearly. And hence is their abundance of hipping, pilots and eamen. And he hews how the Hollanders do exchange their fih to drive their main Trade, and to circulate the wealth in the world into their own centers and pures.

Compare herewith Mr. Evelyn's lately publih'd ingenious dicoure of the Original and Progres of Navigation and Commerce, epecially p. 107, 108, 109, &c. printed in London in Octavo. Rh