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be too great and, wliere you eau see no land, difticult to judge ot', particularly 

 wheu the weather is unfavourable. 



To lift the whole seine up over the water, as they do by the usual deep- 

 sea investigations, by letting the tow-rope go through a block high np in the 

 rigging, so tliat the whole apparatus, while it is taken in, is lioating in the 

 air, stretched out, is against all good fishing-practice, and is, moreover, ahnost 



Kig. :i. A small steam-boat with an otter-seine. — Tlie ilotled lino miu-ks iho disaclvanlftgeous silualimi oC tlir 

 Kcar, wheii Iho crow-lool dnijis aloiig llic bottom. — The deplli dl' tlie water is sonicwhal gieiit in llio ligure 



in proporlion lo Uic lenglli of llio line. 



impossible with this long apparatus. The rolling of the vessel will also intlueuce 

 the gear much more during the hauliug up, and an accumulator will then 

 c-ertainly be ijuite indispeusable; moreover, if the contents of the seine 

 should be very heavy, the seine may jje torn to pieces by beiug lifted out of 

 the water in this way. The tow-rope must not be fastened much higher up 

 than the rail, and the seine must ultimately be hauled in by band till 

 the strong bag is so high up that you can pass a strap round it, and bouse 

 it in, if necessary. First, however, you wash out, by l>acking or going on with 



