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supplied the information relating to the Central Division. 

 This consists of an accurate statement of the amount of 

 cockles landed, month by month, during the year June, 

 1898 — May, 1899, at Lythani. This does not represent 

 all the fishing in the Ribble estuary, and the amount of 

 cockles taken in the Central Division and landed elsewhere 

 than at Lythani is taken as approximately one and a half 

 times the total shown in Mr. Ascroft's table. 



Table I. — Amount of Cockles landed at Lytham 

 during the year June, 1898— May, 1899 :— 



The figures in the third column show the relative values 

 of the monthly takes expressed as percentages of the 

 average take (3309) for the four months October — January. 



In the construction of tables referring to the Northern 

 and Southern Divisions it may be assumed, without serious 

 error, that during the four months, October — January, the 

 yield of the beds is practically constant. For the other 



