AMMONOIDES Linnæi:

Round and including one another.

1. With the folds a little oblique.

2. With the folds direct.

3. With ditto, and more compressed than the two former.

ARGONAUTITES LINNAI.

1. Without divisions, and filled internally with Ammonites.

3. Sulcated land oyster (at Seamer Lime-stone Quarry).

1. The common sort.

BELEMNITES.

2. Suecicus Linn. dissepimentis hemisphericis more nautili. 3. Suecicus compressus.

BITUMINOSA.

Fossil black pitch of thick consistence.

Jet in detached masses, and in veins between the rocks.
Petroleum in the cavities of compressed Nautilites.

The shores abound with Iron in various combination, said to contain 15 per cent. Iron. There are also found Granite, Jasper, Agate, Cornelian, and other beautiful pebbles. The Iron-stone on this shore was let in 1800, to an Iron-Foundery-Company at Newcastle upon Tyne on a lease for fourteen years.

SECTION II.

TRADE

THE possession of absolute perfection falls not to the lot of any situation, there being generally some local inconveniences to counter-balance the advantages; and Scarborough, though in possession of a convenient port, has a restricted commerce. The vicinity of sterile moors and a thinly peopled neighbourhood, without any water-communication with the interior country, are formidable impediments to the extension of Trade, and essentially operate to check the spirit of enterprise.

SHIPPING and it's dependencies are the principal branches, in which the inhabitants are most generally interested. SHIP-BUILDING forms an important object of employment, and is a great source of emolument; but it is precarious, and subject to sudden fluctuations. The following account

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of ships built at Scarborough, for a series of years, will show how materially it is affected at different periods.

Scarborough has not increased in shipping in the same proportion as some other sea-ports, and this may be attributed to a less degree of enterprise, arising from particular circumstances. The great deficiency of authentic documents in former times, prevents the introduction of an extensive account of the progressive increase of the number and tonnage of ships belonging to Scarborough.

In the year 1638, the Lord High Admiral of England commanded lists to be transmitted to the Admiralty from the different sea-ports, containing the number of their respective ships, with their names and burthens: the representation from Scarborough, upon this occasion, shows that only twenty or twenty-two ships of large size then belonged to the port; and that the others were "small barques, between twenty and sixty tons burthen."

In the year 1730, the ships of the greatest burthen did not exceed 240 tons measurement, and the number of that

*The ships are launched in cradles, on an inclined plane, at low

water.

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description was under twenty; the rest were from sixty to one hundred and fifty tons, and their number about seventy: the aggregate tonnage might be estimated at

12,000 tons.

The ships, from this latter period, gradually increased in burthen; but the whole number in 1780 amounted only to one hundred and two.

In the year 1796, the number of ships was one hundred and sixty-five, measuring 25,600 tons.

In 1797, there appears to have been a small declension. The number at the close of that year was only one hundred and sixty-two, and the whole of the registered tonnage, by the Custom-house books at Scarborough, 24,319 tons.

In the present year 1811, the number of ships is only one hundred and thirty-three, and the registered tonnage at the Custom-house at Scarborough, not quite 20,000 tons*.

The only MANUFACTORIES in the place are those immediately dependent upon shipping. There are three of cordage, and one of sail-cloth,

The SHOPS are numerous, and well stored with a variety of miscellaneous articles; but it is the opinion of many, that so extensive a competition cannot fail of proving injurious to the traders. This is, certainly, a just opinion; yet when the extent of the population, the visitors in the Spaw-season, and the great resort of people to the Markets from the neighbouring villages, are considered, the general consumption will be found greater than would appear from a superficial observation.

There are two small annual FAIRS holden at Scarborough,

Several ships belonging to Scarborough are registered in London, the tonnage of which, not included in the above account, may be cal culated at 6,000 tons, making an aggregate of about 26,000 tons.