LOBSTERS. 



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Lobster-fislimg, and the sums of money whicli must 

 change hands in connexion with it. Calculations 

 show that from the coasts of England, Ireland, Scot- 

 land, and the Channel Islands, 150,000 Lobsters per 

 season reach Billingsgate Market, exclusive of the supply 



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of l!Torway Lobsters {Nephrops norvegicus), as repre- 

 sented in the accompanying illustration. These are 

 even more abundantly supplied, and over 600,000 per 

 season are imported. It not unfrequently happens 

 that one day's supply for that great emporium of sea 



