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DEEP-SEA FISHING. 



been all counted into the baskets, she returns to land, 

 and is placed broadside to the beach for the greater 

 convenience of the men who have to take the fish 

 on shore. A swill of fish is then raised to the gunwale 

 of the boat, and a couple of beachmen take the basket 

 between them in their arms, forming a bed for it by 

 clasping each other by the hand — the right-hand man 

 with his left and the other with his right hand — tlie 

 other hands being brought round in front. In this 

 way the swills are carried up the beach, and then 

 placed in rows, two deep, ready for the sale, which 

 takes place as soon as the cargo is landed. 



Landing Fish on Yarmouth Beach. 



On the eastern coast of England, excepting that 

 part in the immediate neighbourhood of Scotland, 

 herrings are commonly reckoned by the " last,"^ nomi- 



^ " Tlie Saxon laat — a burden in general, as also particularh'', a certain weiglit 

 t>r measure ; for as wc say a last of herrings, so they say ciu last corns, &c." — 

 (Swinden, p. 39, note.) 



