With regard to our other exports, coals taken in at Sunderland and Newcaftle are the most confiderable article: We alfo fend abroad fome canvas of our own manufacturing; and in times of peace feveral different commodities. are fent in our fhipping to America, in lieu of which we receive back fuch American produce as is most wanted in this part of the nation: Now and then likewise we send several species of merchandise up the Baltic, but these are never very confiderable. And as for our other exports, which are yearly fent coastways to London, they chiefly confift of about 6000 firkins of Yorkfhire butter, 500 barrels of fish, and a confiderable quantity of tallow, hams, and bacon.

Our imports are much more confiderable. Sixteen thoufand chaldron of coals are yearly brought into our port from Sunderland, Newcastle, and Blyth-Nook; fomewhat more than the half of which are confumed in the town of Whitby, and the remainder are either ufed at the allum-works, or confumed in the country adjacent. From Sunderland also we receive annually about a thousand chaldron of lime; as likewife from thence and Newcastle almost all the bottles and glafs we ufe. From Ireland and Scotland we import kelp for the use of our allum-works; a confiderable quantity of which is wanted yearly, over and above what is made on our own coaft. From Holland we import flax, wainscot-boards, tarras, brandy, geneva, and canvas. From France we have brandy, and part of our wine. From the East Country we have hemp, flax, iron, timber, masts, deals, oak-plank, capravens, pipe-staves, lath-wood, battens, tar, fpruce beer, and feveral other articles. From America we import rice, pitch, tar, turpentine, pine-boards, and fome other commodities produced by the colonies. And lastly, from North-Eaft Greenland, and Davis's Straits, our hips bring home annually a confiderable number of whales, the produce of which are generally difpofed

of at London or Hull.

The genius of the inhabitants of Whitby has a moft furprising turn for the fea. Children, as foon as they are capable of action, endeavour to get upon the water, to handle the oar, to manage the fails of a boat, and to fteer. Hence it comes to pass, that when they are fent to fea, at the are fent to fea, at the age of thirteen or fourteen years, they are already more than half failors, and understand every thing belonging to a fhip. Very few boys will go apprentices to any other bufinefs; and, if they do, they generally at the expiration of that term convert their thoughts to the fea, where they fee fo many of their affociates in a fair way of making their fortunes, and where they have before their eyes fo many living examples of men who are grown rich and opulent that had nothing to begin the world with, or nothing to depend upon but their own induftry. Not lefs than 4000 failors belong to the port of Whitby, and when troublesome times oblige the government to carry a number of these useful men on board fhips of war, it is furprising to fee what crouds of youth flock from the country, for many miles round, to fupply their places; allured thereto, not only by the great indulgence and encouragement given by the government to three years fervants, but also by the high wages offered by the owners of fhips, and the profpect they have of thereby bettering their circumftances.

Several infurance companies are established at Whitby, which certainly are: of much service to the merchants and owners of fhips in general, who are thereby fecured, whenever they please, from any loffes by fea, fire, or war; and this has an extraordinary effect in encouraging a fpirit of industry and enterprize, as it preferves many individuals from being ruined by rifking their all, and, in cafe of any accident, fecures a capital wherewith they can once more begin trade. Nor is there any place in Britain where the infurers act with more honour, or more regularly and faithfully pay the feveral fums they have infured, when any difaitrous accident really happens..

The fish we have on our coaft are, falmon and trout in the river Efke, a part of which is yearly fent to London; and, in the open fea, cod, ling, butt, bratt, plaife, fcate, coal-fifh, herrings, mackareis, haddocks, whitings, gurnets, dabs, fand-fifh, lobiters, and crabs. We have alfo dog-fish, porpoifes, and feveral other fpecies of fith which are not eatable, as they live by preying upon fuch as are fold in our markets, of which they have greatly diminished the breed of late years, fince not more than half the number are now to be found on our coaft that we had thirty or forty years ago, when, befides our own confumption, 150 or 200 tons were exported annually to Spain, or fome other part within the Mediterranean, whereas at prefent we feldom or never fend any fish to foreign markets: Nor (as it is believed by many) fhall we ever more have it in our power to fend any confiderable quantity abroad, unlefs ways and means can be found for defiroying the dog-fish, which are grown fo numerous on our coaft. But this is not to be done without the affiftance of the legiflature, by which, if a fmall premium were offered for every score the fishermen brought in, their whole breed might in a little time be extirpated, (as was the cafe formerly with the wolves here in England) to the no fmail emolument of the fishermen who live upon our coast.

Almoft all the different kinds of fish before-mentioned are carried away,. while fresh, in great quantities into the country by pannier-men and others, fome of them more than a hundred miles hence; and what remains, after fupplying the market and these pannier-men, are either falted down, and sent in barrels to London, or elfe dried, and converted into falt-fish, being fold here afterwards as opportunity offers; but the price is much enhanced within thefe twenty years, thefe fifh being now frequently purchafed of the fishermen at twenty fhillings a fcore, which then feldom or never coft more than five or fix fhillings a fcore.

I fhall conclude this hiftory with obferving, that fo long as a fpirit of induftry and temperance prevails among us, our trade will fiourifh, and we fhall be a rich, opulent, and happy people; but if ever we fuffer ourselves to be enervated, and become a prey to idleness, luxury, and intemperance, our riches will vanith, our trade will leave us, and we fhall infenfibly dwindle away into oblcurity.

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