234 T U R B O T. Class IV. 



England^ and others off the Dutch coaft ; but we 

 believe the laft has, in many inftances, more credit 

 than it deferves for the abundance of its fifh. 

 Fishery. The large Turbots, and feveral other kinds of 

 flat fifh, are taken by the hook and line, for they 

 lye in deep water : the method of taking them in 

 wares, or ftaked nets, is too precarious to be de- 

 pended on for the fupply of our great markets, 

 becaufe it is by meer accident that the great fifh 

 ftray into them, 



It is a misfortune to the inhabitants of many of 

 our fifhing coafts, efpecially thofe of the north part 

 of North Walts, that they are unacquainted with 

 the moft fuccefsful means of capture: for their 

 benefit, and perhaps that of other parts of our 

 ifland, we fhall lay before them the method prac- 

 tifed by the fifhermen of Scarborough, as it wa$ 

 communicated to us by Mr. Travis. 



When they go out to fifh, each perfon is pro- 

 Ll^i^s. vided with three lines. Each man's lines are fair- 

 ly coiled upon a flat oblong piece of wicker-work \ 

 the hooks being baited, and placed very regularly 

 in the centre of the coil. Each line is furnifhcd 

 with 14 fcore of hooks, at the diflance of fix feet 

 two inches from each other. The hooks are fatt- 

 ened to the lines upon fneads of twifted horfe-hair, 

 27 inches in length. 



When fifhing there are always three men in 

 each coble, and confequently nine of thefe lines 

 are fattened together, and ufed as one line, extend- 



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