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feet long, and a foot and a half high. These arc let down to the bot- 

 tom, pretty near the shore, with a string attached to each of them, 

 which is floated by cork. The bait is put in the middle of the inside, 

 and the fish enter by the holes at the ends. These creeves or cases 

 are drawn up once a-day, the fish taken out, and fresh bait put in, 

 when they are let down again for another take. The fishermen some- 

 times lose the whole when a storm comes away during night, or so 

 suddenly that they have not had time to get them ashore . They are 

 placed so near the land that a high sea almost invariably breaks and 

 scatters them, when they happen to be in the water at the time. 



Lobsters seldom enter a case in which crabs are. The black coats 

 do not seem fond of the company of the red coats. Perhaps the crabs 

 eat all up and give them no tithe. They also prefer different food. 

 The crab likes a showy mess, such as skate-heads and tails, cod-heads 

 and guts, and gills ; but the lobster seems to know that it is not all 

 gold that glitters : he has a predilection for flounders and haddocks, 

 and other dainties. 



Another way of taking lobsters and crabs is called trunking. A 

 smaller case than the one described, and with a hole at the top, is 

 used more especially for lobsters ; or an iron hoop, with a net fastened 

 to the rim of it, falling down like a land net, and leaving the upper 

 part open. The bait is fastened in the middle, and after being a half 

 an hour or so in water, they are quickly drawn up, the fish taken out, 

 and then let down again. This method is used at night only. 



The crat) and lobster fishing has been much more attended to since 

 the London market was opened to this part of the coast by steam 

 communication between London and Berwick. But the lobsters will 

 soon be harried if the fishermen continue to take them when full of 

 eggs, as they have been doing for three years past. They should 

 cease fishing at a certain season, as the Holy Island fishermen do. 



List of coleopterous Insects collected in the neighbourhood of the Pease 

 Bridge. By Mr JAMES HARDY. 



COLEOPTERA. 



No. 1. Clivina fossor. No. 10. Pcecilus cupreus. 



2. ... oollaris. 11. Amara similatal 



3. Cychrus rostratus. 12. Harpalus aoneus. 



4. Carabus arvcnsis. 13. Agonum panimpunctatnm. 

 .">. Ilelobia brcvicollis. 14. Trechus dorsalis. 



G. Stcropus madidus. 15. Anchomcnus prasinus. 



7. Calathus melnnoccplialn>. 16. Notiophilus biguttatus. 



8. Omascus molanarius. 17. aquations. 

 . Amara trivialis. 18. Elaphrus cuprous. 



