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wood about 28 feet long, borne on the top of the bulbous ends 

 of two pear-shaped iron structures. A large bag-net is fixed 

 to the apparatus, which is dragged behind the boat by ropes 

 attached to the convex portion of the iron supports. The under 

 surface of the latter is flattened, and the point of the apex 

 (which is posterior) turned upwards — the whole thus forming 

 a kind of subaqueous sledge, which glides over the sand and 

 embraces in its progress every thing loose. Young coal-fishes 

 occur all round the rocks and harbour ; occasionally a sea-trout 

 is captured off the former; sand-eels frequent the sand near low 

 water ,• and the salmon-nets are often very productive. In the 

 rock-pools swim hundreds of little two-spotted gobies, swarms 

 of the beautifully coloured young of the lumpsucker, and 

 strings of young sand-eels sport in the sunshine amongst the 

 fringes of seaweeds like flashes of silvery light — affording with 

 other littoral forms, such as shannies and blennies, ample food 

 for the aquatic birds that frequent the beach. 



The rarer forms include the lancelet, gar-fish, doree, opah, 

 oar-fish, and bonito. 



In the following list the an-angement adopted is that of 

 Dr. A. Giinther in his valuable and laborious 'Catalogue of 

 Fishes in the British Museum.' 



Subclass I. TELEOSTEI. 



Order I. Acanthopterygii. 



Fam. Gasterosteidae. 



Genus Gasteeosteus, Artedi. 



Oasterosteus aculeatiis, Albert. Mag. ; Giinther, Catalogue of 

 Fishes in the British Museum, vol. i, p. 2. 



Frequent on the West Sands after storms. 



Oasterosteus spinachia, L. ; Gthr. op. cit. i. p. 7. 

 Abundant in the rock-pools. 



Fam. Sparidae. 

 Genus Pagellus, Cuv. & Val. 

 PageUus centrodontus, De la Roche ; Gthr. op. cit. i. ]). 476, 

 Not uncommon in the bay. 



