. The earth and its inhabitants ... — Foundered. ° Damaged. those of aU other nations, and the capital required for the construction of steamersadapted for navigating this canal was readily English mariners have not only taken possession of the fishing banks aroundthe British Islands, but also frequent the waters of Newfoundland, Iceland, * More than two-thirds of the foreign and colonial trade of the United Kingdom is carried on inBritish bottoms. t Bagehot, Lombard Street. STATISTICS OP THE UNITED KINGDOM. 465 Baffins Bay, and Spitzbergen. There are several ports, such as Storn
. The earth and its inhabitants ... — Foundered. ° Damaged. those of aU other nations, and the capital required for the construction of steamersadapted for navigating this canal was readily English mariners have not only taken possession of the fishing banks aroundthe British Islands, but also frequent the waters of Newfoundland, Iceland, * More than two-thirds of the foreign and colonial trade of the United Kingdom is carried on inBritish bottoms. t Bagehot, Lombard Street. STATISTICS OP THE UNITED KINGDOM. 465 Baffins Bay, and Spitzbergen. There are several ports, such as Stornoway inthe Outer Hebrides, which have become trysting-places of hundreds of fishing-boats, which sometimes sail in company, like flocks of gulls taking to British fisheries employ about 2G,000 boats, manned by 60,000 men, andtheir produce yields a considerable surplus for exportation to the continent.* Fig. 229.—Caxals and Navigable ; liel The English marine is still further reinforced by a flotilla of 3,400 pleasure yachts, varying in size from a few to 700 tons, some amongst them being veritable floating palaces. British ship-owners are not only called upon to make good the losses resulting * Annual value of herrings and other fish, the produce of British fisheries, exported 1875—79,£1,291,470. 340 4G6 THE BEITISn ISLES. from vessels becoming unserviceable on account of tlioir age, but also those theysustain through shipwreck.* Disasters of this kind occur most frequently in thevicinity of the great shipping ports, along the dangerous east coast, and amidstthe rocks of the Orkneys and Shetland Islands. As far as they can be providedagainst by lighthouses, light-ships, sea-marks, and lifeboats, no pains have beenspared, for there is not another coast in the world which is equally well providedwith all that can mitigate the dangers inseparable from the navigation of the sea. Some measure of
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