HISTORY OF THE 



fand and fhells ; others, for many leagues in lengthy 

 with foft mud and ooze, furnifhed by the difcharge 

 of the Tees and Plumber. 



Upon an attentive review of the whole, it may, 

 be clearly inferred, that the fhore along the coaft on. 

 the one hand, with the edges of the Dogger- bank 

 on the other, like the fides of a decoy, give a direc- 

 tion towards our fifliing grounds, to the mighty 

 fhoals of cod, and other fiih, which are well known 

 to come annually from the northern ocean into our 

 feas -, and fecondly, that the great variety of fifhing 

 grounds near Scarborough, extending upwards of 16, 

 leagues from the fhore, afford fecure retreats and 

 plenty of proper food for all the various kinds of fifh, . 

 and alib fuitable places for each kind to depofit their 

 fpawn-in. 



The fishery at Scarborough only, employs 105. 

 men, and brings in about 5250!. per annum, a trifle 

 to what it would produce, was there a canal from 

 thence to Leeds and Manchefter ; it is probable it \ 

 would then produce above ten times that fum, em- 

 ploy fome thoufands of men, give a comfortable and 

 cheap fubfiftence to our manufactures, keep the mar- 

 kets moderately reafonable, enable our manufactur- 

 ing towns to underfell our rivals, and prevent the 

 hands, as is too often the cafe, from raifmg in- 

 furrections, in every year of fcarcity, natural or 

 artificial. 



The method of taking turbot and other fifh by the 

 people of Scarborough is thus; when they go out to 

 fifh for turbot, each perfon is provided with 3 lines ; 

 each man's lines are fairly coiled upon a flat oblong 

 piece of wicker-work ; the hooks being baited, and 

 placed very regularly in the centre of the coil; each 

 line is furnifhed with 14 fcore of hooks, at the dif- 

 tance of 6 feet 2 inches from each other. The 

 hooks are fattened to the lines upon fneads of 

 twilled horfe-hair, 27 inches in length. When 

 fcfhing, there are always three men in each coble, and 



confequently 



