APPENDIX

THE two following accounts are subjoined in order to illustrate and confirm what is said in the Fifth Chapter of the Fourth Book, concerning the tonnage bounty to the White-Herring Fishery. The reader, I believe, may depend upon the accuracy of both accounts.

AN ACCOUNT OF BUSSES FITTED OUT IN SCOTLAND FOR
ELEVEN YEARS, WITH THE
NUMBER OF EMPTY BARRELS CARRIED OUT, AND THE NUMBER OF BARRELS OF
HERRINGS CAUGHT; ALSO THE BOUNTY AT A MEDIUM ON
EACH BARREL OF SEASTEEKS, AND ON EACH BARREL
WHEN FULLY PACKED

Years.

Number of Busses

Empty Barrels carried out.

Barrels of Herrings caught.

Bounty paid on the Busses.

1771

    29

    5948

    2832

    2085

  0

  0

1772

  168

  41316

  22237

  11055

  7

  6

1773

  190

  42333

  42055

  12510

  8

  6

1774

  248

  59303

  56365

  16952

  2

  6

1775

  275

  69144

  52879

  19315

 15

  0

1776

  294

  76329

  51863

  21290

  7

  6

1777

  240

  62679

  43313

  17592

  2

  6

1778

  220

  56390

  40958

  16316

  2

  6

1779

  206

  55194

  29367

  15287

  0

  0

1780

  181

  48315

  19885

  13445

 12

  6

1781

  135

  33992

  16593

    9613

 12

  6

TOTAL 

2186

550943

378347

155463

 11

  0