96 FISH HARVESTING. 



The great seawrack, that grows to an immense 

 size in these northern seas, and forms submarine 

 forests, has a hollow stalk, expanded into a com- 

 plete flask at the root-end. Cut into lengths of 

 about three feet, these hollow stalks, with the 

 bulb at the end, are collected and kept wet until 

 recniired for use. As the oil is obtained, it is 

 stored away in these natural quart-bottles, or 

 rather larger bottles, for some of them hold three 

 pints. 



Some fifty years ago, vast shoals of eulachon 

 used regularly to enter the Columbia; but the 

 silent stroke of the Indian paddle has now given 

 place to the splashing wheels of great steamers, 

 and the Indian and the candle-fish have vanished 

 together. From the same causes the eulachon 

 has also disappeared from Puget's Sound, and is 

 now seldom caught south of latitude 50 N. 



