Batavia illustrata; or, A view of the policy and commerce of the United Provinces . SECT. L O F T H E Dutch EFO R E we enter into a De-I tail ot the Dntcb Trade in ge-neral, It will be proper to takea View of their Fifieries, andMaftufattures; u hich were theoriginal Source?, and are nowthe Support of all their vaft Navigation andCommerce. The Dutch Hillorian Emanuei,Van Meteren, informs us thit in 1610,there went {xom Holland fifteen hundred Eujjesor fmall Veflels, upon tlic Herring Fifhery;and cur Countryman Sir Walter Raleigh,who was employed by King James I, tofncjuire into it,

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Batavia illustrata; or, A view of the policy and commerce of the United Provinces . SECT. L O F T H E Dutch EFO R E we enter into a De-I tail ot the Dntcb Trade in ge-neral, It will be proper to takea View of their Fifieries, andMaftufattures; u hich were theoriginal Source?, and are nowthe Support of all their vaft Navigation andCommerce. The Dutch Hillorian Emanuei,Van Meteren, informs us thit in 1610,there went {xom Holland fifteen hundred Eujjesor fmall Veflels, upon tlic Herring Fifhery;and cur Countryman Sir Walter Raleigh,who was employed by King James I, tofncjuire into it, made his Report to Him, 266 B AT AV I A Partll. that in the fame Year i5io, the Dutch hadno lefs than ihiee Thoufand Veflcls em-ployed in the Herrhg Ftjhery only. But inThis He coniicsidii^s Van Meteren; and indeedconfidering how great a Lover Sir of Commerce, we cannot wonder if Heexaggerated the Account, in order to rouzeup the (upine Temper ot the Kitjg^ and in-fpire Him with an Emulation, whicli CountGondemar the Spanifh Minifter knew but toowell Jiow to fupprefs. It is impofTible toname the exact

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