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Account of the Produce of the Fishery of Sandstell, from the earliest Infor- 

 mation contained in my Father's booh, that have been preserved. By 

 William Waite, Esq. 



1736 



1737 



1742 



1743 



1744 



1745 



1746 



1747 



1748 

 1752 

 1753 

 1754 



1755 



1756 



1757 

 1758 

 1759 

 1760 



1761 

 1762 

 1763 



1764 



1765 

 1766 

 1767 

 1768 



1769 



1770 

 1771 

 1772 

 1773 



1774 

 1775 

 1776 

 1777 

 1778 

 1779 

 1780 

 1781 

 1782 

 1783 

 1784 

 1785 

 1786 

 1787 

 1788 

 1789 



1790 



Salmon. 



1486 



2694 



1582 



1666 

 1940 



52 



1206 

 3836 



7024 

 4372 

 6386 

 4476 



4682 



4558 



1846 

 4714 

 5988 

 8934 



4812 



11216 



17484 

 8538 

 6552 

 6826 



6006 



8970 

 12852 

 8308 

 9238 

 3008 

 7176 

 8388 

 3736 

 2836 

 5374 

 5496 

 6878 

 2904 

 1922 

 2498 

 1906 

 2800 

 3856 

 1477 

 2577 



2498 



No 



account- 



Do. 



300 



606 



No. 



account. 



Do. 



840 

 5150 



2042 

 560 

 922 



5710 



1914 



No. 

 account. 



Do. 

 3354 

 3816 

 1020 



1153 

 2880 

 2226 



No. 

 accoimt 



Do. 

 2486 

 1688 

 2046 



No. 

 account 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 4400 



640 

 4419 

 1513 



3068 



Trouts. 



398 I 



400 3 

 1002 



402 



500 



No. 

 account. 



960 

 1030 



634 



420 

 512 

 392 



350 



634 



654 

 366 

 122 

 106 



128 

 446 

 592 



782 



1300 



954 



988 



1140 



370 



1702 



1144 



1848 



3408 



2574 



2280 



1.544 



808 



1938 



2536 



864 



730 



258 



1346 



986 



769 



1224 



2558 



14.54 



1465 



No. 



account. 



Notes of any thing eeiiarkable eelating to the 



FiSHEET. 



The account of tlie first of these seasons only comes 

 down to 31st July ; the second to 13th Aug-ust ; the 

 remainder lost. No account to be found of Sand- 

 stell of 1738-39-40-41, but all these seasons were 

 good in Blakewell. 



N. B. Sandstell, in 1745, had on the 13th April pro- 

 duced 52 salmon, but her ground was then thought 

 so bad, that the fishermen deserted her and went 

 to Scotland, though I have often heard Mr Lambert 

 saj% had they continued, they would have fished 

 as well as usual. 



N. B. Caught in Sandstell, on 10th July 1747, in one 

 tide, 170 salmon, 630 gilses — in all 700 fish. 



No account of 1749-50-58 to be found. 



j-V. B. In 1754, caught in SandstiU, in one tide, 300 

 salmon and 900 gilses — in all 1200 fish. 



In 1757, Hallowstell a great year, 

 had likely been bad. 



Sandstell grouiad 



/V. B. 1760. Believed the most plentiful season ever 

 known in the Tweed. A great quantity of salmon 

 sold at 9d., 8d., and one day at 4d. per stone. One 

 flood on a Monday siipposed to produce 10,000 

 salmon. — N.B. In all these years, very few trouts. 



X. B. The greatest year that ever was in Sandstell. 



N. B. i?Lbout this period, the Bull commenced fish- 

 ing, and had some very great years. 



In July 1770, my father died. For years after that, 

 the gilse books either lost or mislaid. 



N. B. AV)out this period, the hole in the Meadow 

 Haven began to increase, and lowering the beacon 

 rocks for smugglers' ballast, — both certainly inju- 

 rious to the Tweed, but Sandstell particularly. 



N. B. In 1782, two most remarkable floods in May, 

 which injured Sandstell grounds excessively, and 

 certainly hurt the Tweed fishing generally. 



Sandstell ground not so good for many years after 

 the Floods in 1782. 



X. B. In 1787, a great salmon season, but few gilses. 

 Terrot's, and the Tweed generally, much better in 

 proportion than Sandstell.— iV. B. In 1787 and 1789, 

 great quantities of salmon in both seasons, but 

 from badness of Sandstell ground, and constant 

 floods, did not get our proportion in either season. 



