APPENDIX.
Tiie two following- accounts are subjoined in order to illus-trate and confirm what is said in the fifth chapter of thefourth book, concerning the tonnage bounty to the whiteherring fishery. The reader, I believe, may depend uponthe accuracy of both accounts.
An Account of Busses fitted out in Scotland for ElevenYears, with the Number of empty Barrels carried out , andthe Number <of Barrels of Herrings caught ; also theBounty at a Medium on each Barrel of Seastecks, and oneach Barrel when fully packed.
Years.
Number ofBusses.
Empty Barrelscarried out.
Barrels of Her-rings caught.
Bounty paid oithe Busses.
£.
s.
d.
1771
29
5948
2832
2085
0
0
1772
168
41316
22237
11055
7
6
1773
190
42333
42055
12510
8
G
1774
248
59303
56365
16952
2
G
1775
275
69144
52879
19315
15
0
1776
294
76329
51863
• 21290
7
6
1777
240
62679
43313
17592
o
G
1778
220
56390
40958
16316
2
6
1779
206
55194
29367
15287
0
0
1780
181
48315
19885
13445
12
G
1781
135
33992
16593
9613
12
6
Total, 2186
550943
378347
155463
11
0
3 M