The Fisheries revived: or, Britain's hidden treasure discovered. Proving, that not only our future wealth, but security, will depend upon that inestimable trade. Containing, The state of the fisheries of the different nations in Europe, frequenting our seas, with the imperfect state of our own; A description of the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland; an account of their inhabitants, with their manner of their taking and curing fish, from the journal of a gentleman who surveyed them last summer; copies of the Dutch placarts; the scheme for carrying on the said trade, and employing the parish-poor therein; with the acts of Parliament relating to fish and fisheries, from the 13th of Edward I. to the present year. The whole illustrated with plans of the most noted harbours in the said islands, and prospects of the remarkable headlands, for the better direction of navigators.

Date:

1750