Haddock. 
go ON THE PLACE OF FISH IN 
river might be spared but even one year from nets, 
&c.! But, alas! then should many a poor man be 
undone.) 
The tide rises and falls twice a day as high as 
seventy miles above London. There are floods when | 
the Thames overfloweth her banks in the falls and 
changes of January and February wherein the lower 
eround are soonest drowned; this order of flowing is 
perpetual. These land floods also do greatly strain 
the fineness of the stream, insomuch that after a 
creat land flood you shall take haddock with your 
hands beneath the bridge, as they float upon the 
water, whose eyes are so blinded with the thick- 
ness of that element, that they cannot see where 
to become and make shift to save themselves before 
death take hold of them. Otherwise the water of 
itself is very clear, and in comparison next unto that 
of the sea, which is subtle and pure of all other. 
Extracts from ‘THE PAMPHLETEER.—Vol. I. 1813. 
It is a singular but ascertained fact, that when the 
largest quantity of mackerel is in the British Channel, 
which supplies the London market, the fishermen who 
frequent Billingsgate almost wholly discontinue the 
mackerel fishing. Itis thus accounted for—the fisher- 
men depend on the fishwomen who daily attend 
Billingsgate with baskets on their heads to purchase 
their fish. But as soon as the common fruit comes into 
season these women find the sale of gooseberries and 
such like produce them a larger and more secure profit, 
with less risk and trouble. 
Being disappointed of a sale for the mackerel at the 
