192 LAMM-FISHING. 



about tlie quays of Weymouth. Men and Iboys who 

 collect prawns and shrimps (the latter term used in 

 its popular, not its zoological sense) go round in boats 

 along the sides of the sea-walls, as well those outside 

 of tlie harbour forming the esplanade as the commercial 

 quays. These at low-water-line are clothed with a 

 ragged olive fringe of Fuci^ chiefly F. serratus^ which 

 hang down in an almost uninterrupted line of dense 

 tufts, affording shelter to many small animals. The 

 fisherman is provided with a lamm, a kind of bag-net, 

 the frame of which is in the form of a bow of four feet 

 diameter, the place of the chord being occupied by a 

 stout piece of wood, fi'om the centre of which passes 

 a staff eight feet long, crossing the bow, to whose 

 middle it is fastened. The net is a bag fixed to the 

 bow and chord. It is used in this manner : The 

 fisherman, dipping it beneath the hanging weeds, 

 raises it to the surface, shaking it, and as it were 

 raking the weeds with its chord ; his comrade slowly 

 pushing the boat meanwhile along the quay. After 

 two or three dips he examines his success, picks out 

 the prawns and shrimps, and deposits them in a bag 

 at his waist, and throws out contemptuously all 

 " rubbish." 



It is this " rubbish," however, which to any one 

 but the prawn-catcher constitutes the main game. 

 Many interesting little creatures have I got in this 

 way. Among the fishes this Pogge has occurred two 



the Lyrie, the Sea-poacher, the Pluck, the Noble ; while the admirers 

 of Greek and Latin may choose between Aspidophorus Europaeus, 

 Cottus cataphractus, Cataphractus Schoneveldii, and Aspidophorus 

 cataphractus. 



