Class IV. CONGER. 149 



celona. The quantities that were fent from Mount's- 

 Bay for five years, were as follow : 



Some are taken by a fingle hook and line, but Capture* 

 (becaufe that way is tedious, and does not anfwer 

 the expence of time and labour) they are chiefly 

 caught by Butters, which are flrong lines five hun- 

 dred feet long, with fixty hooks, each eight feet 

 afunder, baited with pilchards or mackrel: the 

 Butters are funk to the ground by a (tone fattened 

 to them : fometimes fuch a number of thefe are tied 

 together as to reach a mile. 



We have been told that the fifhermen are very 

 fearful of a large conger, lead it fhould endanger 

 their legs by clinging round them ; they therefore 

 kill them as foon as pofllble by ftriking them on 

 the navel. 



They are afterwards cured in this manner: they C*i 

 are flit, and hung on a frame till they dry, hav- 

 ing a confiderable quantity of fat, which it is ne- 

 ceifary fhould exude before they are fit for ufe. 

 It is remarkable that a conger of a hundred weight 

 will wafte by drying to twenty-four pounds -, the 

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