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Shoals. 



Class. IV H A D O C K. 1S1 



after a ftorm are covered with mud on their backs. 



In fummer they live on young herrings and other Food. 

 fmall fiih; in winter on the (lone-coated worms*, 

 which the fifhermen call hadock meat. 



The grand fhoal of hadocks comes periodically V 

 on the Yorkfhire coafts. It is remarkable that they 

 appeared in 1766 on the 10th of December, and 

 exactly on the fame day in 1767 : thefe fhoals ex- 

 tended from the fhore near three miles in breadth, 

 and in length from Flamborough head to Tin-mouth 

 caftle, and perhaps much farther northwards. An 

 idea may be given of their numbers by the follow- 

 ing fact : three fifhermen, within the diftance of a 

 mile from Scarborough harbour, frequently loaded 

 their coble or boat with them twice a-day, taking 

 each time about a ton of fifb : when they put down 

 their lines beyond the diftance of three miles from 

 the fhore, they caught nothing but dog fifh, which 

 fhows how exactly thefe fifh keep their limits. 



The belt hadocks were fold from eightpence to 

 a milling per fcore, and the poor had the fmaller 

 fort at a penny, and fometimes a halfpenny per 

 fcore f . 



The large hadocks quit the coaft as foon as they 



* A fpecies of Serpula. 

 f Here Mr. Travis, to whom I am much obliged for a moll 

 accurate account of the Torkjbire fiih, with great humanity 

 projects an inland navigation, to convey at a cheap and eafy 

 method, thofe gifts of Providence to the thoufands of poor 

 manufacturers who inhabit the diftant parts of that vail county. 



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