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The value of the exportation of fish, from the different ports of Nor way, in the same year, was

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the South Districts of Norway 20000

The whole amount is, therefore, 1203000 dollars Danish currency.

To the amount of the above exportation is still to be added the an nual produce of the herring fishery and dried fish, which are carried by land from Norway to Jemteland, Heredalen, and other provinces in Sweden.

The dried fish are exported to the Mediterranean sea, Holland, Spain, France, and the Baltic

The pickled herrings are exported to the Baltic and to Germany; the train and fish oil to Holland, the Baltic, and Germany; the roe to France and Spain.

Their fishery made some advance, yet not so rapid as might have been expected, when we consider the war in Europe annoys the principal maritime powers, and that Holland was altogether excluded from the fishery, while England neglected it. In the year 1799, however, 256 cargoes of fish were exported from Norway, making 8951 lasts, or about 17900 tons, principally to France, Spain, the Mediterranean, and the Baltic, to which sea were exported 61 cargoes; and, strange as it may appear, near 894 tons of fish were caught and exported by the Norwegians to Great Britain.

Denmark, enjoying the advantages of neutrality during the war, gained great riches, not only by the carrying trade, amongst the belligerent powers, but by encouraging her fisheries and supplying the contending nations with that produce. They were uninterruptedly cultivating it to so great an extent, that the rapid increase from 1799 to 1802 is a sufficient proof that they tasted the fruits of their industry, so as to lay the foundation of wealth. In the latter year, we find no less than 411 cargoes, containing about 26500 tons, of fish exported by sea exclusive of the transport by land to Sweden and what was reserved for home consumption. It will, therefore, be interesting to give the complete

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detail of this fishery, in the ports in Norway, whence exported, and where to.

Detailed Account of the Fish Trade of Norway and of the Exportation tó foreign Places, in the Year 1802.

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We next come to the wood trade of Norway, which was but trifling in its exports, owing to its quality being always held as very inferior: the small size also made it not much esteemed, while long, large, full grown timber could be got from the Baltic at reasonable prices. In the year 1797 the exportation from all Norway was

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In consequence of the prohibition to the exportation of timber from Russia, in the close of the year 1798, of which we have already treated, the exportation, in 1799, from Norway, was,

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Of this quantity we find no less than 964 cargoes, being 72222 lasts, were exported to Great Britain and Ireland, and that too in their own shipping.

The prohibition to the exportation from Russia, and its subsequent limitation, has been greatly in favour of Norway; it has caused timber to be brought farther from the interior, on account of the advanced price, which could not, from the heavy expense, be brought before,

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when the price was reasonable, and larger timber has, in consequence been got, the farther they have advanced into the interior. In order, likewise, to give a complete view of this branch of trade, the following statement will shew which of the Norwegian ports the wood has been shipped from, and to what foreign ports, for the year 1802.

Detailed Account of the Timber Trade from Norway to foreign Places, in the Year 1802.

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Of Commercial Institutions in Denmark.-Its Bank.-Asiatic Company.-West India Company.-Sea Insurance Company.-Transit Trade.-Salvage Company and Regulations.-Past and present State of the Danish Shipping.- Number of Ships built and their Lastage, in 1802.-Table of the Trade and Navigation of Denmark in 1803. -Imports and Exports of Great Britain to and from Denmark and Norway, from 1700 to 1804.-Trade and Navigation of Great Britain. with Denmark, in 1800, 1801, and 1802.- ·General Observations..

THE BANK of Copenhagen, was established and chartered in the year 1736, under the name of the Assignation, Exchange, and Loan

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