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SALMON. Class IV. 



don in balkets, nnlefs now and then the veffel is 

 difappointed by contrary winds, of failing imme- 

 diately, in that cafe the fiih is brought alhore again 

 to the coopers offices, and boiled, pickled, and 

 kitted, and fent to the London markets by the 

 fame (hip, and frefh faknon put in the bafkets in 

 lieu of the ftale ones. At the beginning of the fea- 



P*jce. fon, when a fhip is on the point of failings a freih 

 clean falmon will fell from a milling to eighteen 

 pence a pound, and mod of the time that this part 

 of the trade is carried on, the prices are from five 

 to nine millings per ftone *, the value rifing and 

 falling according to the plenty of fiih, or the pro- 

 fpect of a fair or foul wind. Some fifh are fent in 

 this manner to London the latter end of September? 

 when the weather grows cool, but then the fifh are 

 full of large roes> grow very thin bellied, and are 

 not efleemed either palatable or wholefome. 



The price of frefh fifh in the month of July^ 

 when they are moft plentiful, has been known to 

 be as low as 8 d. per ftone, but lad year never 

 lefs than i6d. and from that to is. 6d. 



Season. The feafon for fifhing in the Tweed begins No- 



vember 30th, but the fiihermen work very little till 

 after Cbriftmas-, it ends on Michaelmas-Day, yet 

 the corporation of Berwick (who are confervators 



* A ftone of falmon weighs 18 lb. 10 oz. and half, or in 

 other terms, four Hones, or fifty-fix pounds avoirdupoife, is 

 only three Hones, or forty-two pounds, fifh weight at Berwick 



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