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THE 



MANNER OF TAKING PORPOISES, 



AT THE 



EAST END OF LONG-ISLAND. 

 £r EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU, es^ire^ 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE CORPORATION. 



A SEINE is made eighty rods long, with lines about 

 the bignefs of ratline fluff, fuitable for a vefTel of fixty tons j 

 the meOies are nine inches fquare, and the feine, in depth, 

 is between twenty and thirty feet, or according to the depth 

 of water where it is propofed to take the fifh : the buoys, 

 are made of tight cafks of the bignefs of ten gallon kegs. — 

 The feine is fet parallel v/ith the (hore and kept flraight, by 

 an anchor at each end, with a buoy, at the diflance from the 

 fhore, of about eighty rods. Two other fienes are made with 

 meflies of fix inches fquare, with cordage of the bignefs of a 

 large codline. The two feines are put in feparate boats 

 which lie at the fhore, oppofite the ends of the great feine. 

 The porpoifes go in flioals, and in following the fmall fifh, 

 come between the fliore and the great feine ; when the 

 porpoifes are got about the middle of the feine, one boat fets 

 off a-head of them, and goes diredlly to the end of the great 

 feine, throwing out the light feine from the fhore to the end of the 

 great feine, when they are bothfaftened together, and difcharged 



