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and are about a yard high, and two feet and 

 a half wide : on one fide near the bottom is 

 an entrance for the fifhes, made of twigs, and 

 fometimes of yarn made into a net. Oppofite 

 to thisentrance, on the other fide of the wed, 

 looking towards the lower part of the river, 

 is anotherentrance, like the firft, and leading 

 to a box of boards about four foot long, two 

 deep, and two broad. Near each of the 

 weels is a hedge, leading obliquely to the 

 long hedge, and making an acute angle with 

 it. This latter hedge is made in order to lead 

 the fim into the trap, and it is placed on 

 that end of the long hedge which looks to- 

 wards the upper part of the river; nowwhen. 

 the tide comes up the river, the fifh, and 

 chiefly the eels, go up with it along the river 

 fide; when the water begins to ebb, the 

 fifh likewife go down the river, and meeting 

 with the hedges, they fwim along them, till 

 they come through the weels into the boxes 

 of boards, at the top of which there is a 

 hole with a cover, through which the fifh 

 could be taken out. This apparatus is 

 chiefly made on account of the eels. In 

 fome places hereabouts they place nets in- 

 flead of the hedges of twigs. 



THE mores of the river now confided 

 no more of pure earth; but of a fpecies of 

 flate. They are very deep and nearly per- 

 pendicular 



