WASTEFUL NEGLIGENCE, 2<)9 



XII. 



Notice of certain Infiances of wafieful Negligence in fame Fiffteries 

 in the North. % an Enquirer. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 



SIR, London, Oft. 10, 1805, 



AT is mentioned in the Statiftical Reports of Banff and Peter- Inftances of ^ 

 head, that the fimermen there never think of carrying their fifth ^f^me" 

 along the coafl fouthward, which they might do, to Leith, in fisheries. 

 24 hours, or with a good brifk wind to Berwick-upon-Tweed, 

 or even Newcaftle-upon-Tyne : but when their refpe&ive 

 towns are fupplied they throw the remainder upon the dunghills 

 for manure ! this was pofitively affirmed to me as a truth, by 

 a gentleman of great refpectability of Aberdeen. — At Arbroath 

 another cuftom equally as extravagant in its kind prevails, 

 and of which I have been a witnefs: the crab fifhery there is 

 (o productive, that after boiling them, (he bodies of the crabs 

 are thrown away, and the large claws only brought to table ! 

 Ought not fuch amazing wafte to be remedied ? * 



Your's refpectfully, 



An ENQUIRER, 



XIII. 



On Bile. By M. Thenard/J-. 



-OlLE has been commonly confidered as a faponaceous liquor Bile eonfidered 

 charged with albumen : but it has been found, upon clofer in- as a foa P with 

 veftigation, to prefent phenomena which cannot be accounted 



* $u. What may the value of manure procured from fifb atthefe 

 plarts, compared with the price of the article at the neighbouring 

 markets, fubject to the deduction of carriage (coaftwife), and the 

 effect of a rival fupply from nearer parts of the coaft ? — The facts 

 which would iblve this queftion fc would (hew whether the fifhermen 

 neglect their interefts in thefe proceedings.— W. N. 



f Bulletin des Sciences, No. 95. 



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albumen. 



