sea coast, were treated with manifest injustice, 

 since they are not allowed to fish in any way they 

 please. What would be the effect of such a liberty, 

 I will endeavour to shew, and, in the mean 

 time, I will hazard the assertion, that by being 

 confined to the only legal mode of net fishing, that 

 is, the net and coble, (meaning generally any kind 

 of boat and any kind of net if the meshes are large 

 enough,) they sustain no injustice; and that, if 

 the waters in their neighbourhood abound with 

 fish (at seasons, too, as it is said, when they are 

 scarce in the upper fishings), they can reap all the 

 adventitious benefit of their situation (provided 

 they have obtained a King's Grant through the Ex- 

 chequer) by using the legal methods. Let it not 

 be said, that the sea is too boisterous and the water 

 too deep, for the Salmon is taken very plentifully, 

 and of a very good kind, in many of the interior 

 lakes, oj 1 used to be taken before the employment 

 of stake-nets on the coast, where the surf runs fully 

 as high, and the water is much deeper than on any 

 of the surrounding coasts. 



But in the Pamphlet before us, this mode of 

 fishing, that is, with the coble-net, is described as 

 most destructive to the young fish ; and, as the 

 charge is new, I shall take the liberty of tran- 

 scribing the words themselves. Page 25, 26: 



" While the net is in this manner impelled down 

 the river, and drawn on shore, its weights and 

 heavy ropes are dragged along the banks and upon 



