344 



PILCHARD. Class IV. 



go on the grounds of others to hue, without being 

 liable to actions of trefpafs, which before occafioned 

 frequent lawfuits. 



The emoluments that accrue to the inhabitants 

 of that county are great, and are beft expreffed in 

 the words of Doctor W. Borlafe, in his account of 

 the Pilchard fifhery. 



" It employs a great number of men on the fea, 

 * c training tnem thereby to naval affairs; employs 

 6t men, women, and children, at land, in falting, 

 ■ c preffing, walhing, and cleaning, in making 

 * 6 boats, nets, ropes, cafks, and all the trades de- 

 <c pending on their conft ruction and fale. The 

 " poor is fed with the offals of the captures, the 

 " land with the refule of the fifh and fait, the mer- 

 * c chant finds the gains of commiffion and honeft 

 " commerce, the fifherman the gains of the fifh. 

 " Ships are often freighted hither with fait, and 

 f f into foreign countries with the fifh, carrying off 

 ** at the fame time part of our tin. The ufual pro- 

 " duce of the number of hogfheads exported each 

 cc - year, for ten years, from 1747 to 1756 inclufive, 

 " from the four ports of Fawy, Falmouth, Penzance, 

 6i and St. Ives, it appears that Fawy has exported 

 "yearly 1732 hogfheads; Falmouth, 14631 h'bgf- 

 " heads and two- thirds; Penzance and Mounts- Bay ■, 

 " 1 2 149 hogfheads and one-third; St. Ives, 1282 

 " hogfheads: in all amounting to 29795 hogfheads. 

 V Every hogfhead for ten years laft pa ft, together 

 f! with the bounty allowed for -each hogfhead ex- 



cc ported, 



