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Law, has been shipped to hugland

in British Bottoms._ I

seventy

informed by a very respectable authority that sixty Vessels of this description expected here next winter, and

as each

there Veruels is

estimated on

an

average

arc

to

expend some £500 in the Colony, by which each class of the Community is benefited, this

Branch

of

"Trade deserves especial encouragements. I understand, morcover, that the masters

of

the

above Whaler when here, convened meeting and passed a Resolution that Houghing

was the cheapest.

land most suitable Ports in the

Phaet

for

and

for

Atheis!

the ncent

of Whalers,

the transhipment of

These Vessels can

cargoes.

refit here at a

small

comparative ly

166

expense, proeuse such

be in need

supplies as they may

of, and return to the whaling ground

uch as soon as

the season

opens. I entertain, therefore every hope that this trade may

prove of great

A

use to the

19

"Colony ! 4 Verzel has also lately arrived here under American

colours from bregon, for the purpose of entering into Contracts

the

for

supply of marts, Spars, te, which at times are much

required here. The returns with

вс

of

Convic

from Houghtong.

In conclusion, I would add that although the Colony is of

use to the few firm

great

engaged

yet

ged in the Opium Trade, it is on the general_