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and two hooks ; the line is well weighted at intervals of 6 inches. Besides 

 these, there are the pannola da occhiate (for Oblata melanura) and the pannola 

 da branzin (for basse) ; the former ends in wire, the latter in catgut. 



The Lenza is a similar line to the foregoing, made of three or four horse- 

 hairs twined together, but with larger hooks, for catching gilt-head. 



The Traena, or Trajna, is similar in form, made of coarse twine ; length, 

 50 fathoms and above. At the end there is a copper wire 10 feet long, 

 with two large hooks ; it is drawn by a sailing or rowing boat at a fair 

 speed, and is used in the south of Dalmatia for gilt-head, dentex, Lizza (see 

 Plate XXIV.). 



The Togna is a hand-line without lead, with 3 to 10 or more small hooks, 

 used from a stationary boat for gobies, mendole, and Maride, &c. (see 

 Plate XXIV.). There are various kinds, viz., the Togna da menole, the Togna 

 da span', and the Togna da orate, &c, according to the variety of fish they 

 are used for. 



The Squadrale is a hand-line for dentex. It is made of coarse twine 

 80 m. in length, and 20 m. are kept in hand by the fisherman to ease the line 

 (Jilare lo squadrale) in case a large fish makes a bite. It is well weighted at 

 intervals of 2 m., and ends in a copper wire 8-10 m. long and two hooks 

 fixed in opposite directions to one another. It is drawn by a sailing or 

 rowing boat at full speed. 



The Parangale is a line, 50 to 250 fathoms long, which carries 100 to 300 

 hooks on snoods two or three feet long and about a yard or two yards apart. 

 According to the fish to be caught, the cord is either kept up by floats near 

 the surface, the hooks hanging down, as in the case of gar-fish {Parangale 

 gallcggiante) ; or it is sunk at the bottom of the sea, being weighted by 

 stones at the one end, and buoyed to a floating signal (segnale) at the other, 

 from which it is hauled in, as is the case with the conger-eel, sharks, rays, &c. 

 (Parangale distesa). The hooks are baited with small mendole or pieces of 

 cephalopods, and the line is drawn up for examination every two or three 

 hours, or left down over night (see Plate XXIII.). 



The Deutald is a similar long line for the dentex (Dentate). 



The Parangale a vela a anguslgole is a similar line for gar-fish (angusigole). 



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