various kinds of Flatfisli, as ISolcs, Plaice, Thombaclcs, and 

 I'urbots ; but ^vl^on the warm weather has driven the fish 

 into deeper water, and upon banks of a rougher surface, 

 where trawling is no longer practicable, the fishermen have 

 then recourse to their many-hooked lines. The hooks are 

 baited with the common Smelt, and a small fish resembling 

 an Eel, called the Gorebill.* Though very considerable 

 quantities of this fish are now taken on various parts of our 

 own coasts, from the Orkneys to the Land's End, yet a 

 preference is given in the London market to those caught by 

 the Dutch, who are supposed to have drawn not less than 

 80,000/. a year for the supply of this market alone ; and the 

 Danes from 12,000/. to 15,000/. a year for sauce to this 

 luxury of the table, extracted from one million of lobsters, 

 taken on the rocky shores of Norway, — though our own 

 shores are in many parts plentifully supplied with this ma- 

 rine insect, equal in goodness to those of Norway." 



About one-fourth of the whole supply of Turbot to the 

 London market is furnished by Dutch fishermen, who pay 

 a duty of 61. per boat, each boat bringing from one hundred 

 to one hundred and fifty Turbot. A very considerable 

 quantity is also purchased of the Dutch fishermen at sea on 

 the fishing stations near their own shore by English fisher- 

 men, and is brought by them to our market in their own 

 boats, paying no duty. 



Along our southern coast many Turbot are caught by the 

 trawling vessels, and long-line fishing at particular seasons on 

 the Vame and on the Kidge, — tw^o extensive banks of sand, 

 the first about seven miles, and the second about twelve 

 miles, from Dover, towards the French coast. On these 

 banks French fishermen also lay their long-lines ; and when 

 they do not succeed in selling their Turbot at sea, which 



* Vol. i. page 391. 



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