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purses or bags to stop the fish) about twelve feet ; the 

 meshes are about four inches square. Nine to ten small 

 egg-shaped pieces of wood, usually turned for the purpose, 

 are strung at equal distances apart, on the upper telna, 

 instead of corks or flarn ; and the like number of small 

 circular pieces of iron, in lieu of leads, on the lower 

 telna; and as the floats and the weights are made fast, 

 and as in the intermediate spaces there is abundance 

 of loose meshes, the fish let him strike the net where he 

 may enters a sort of bag, and is pretty sure to be at 

 once enveloped in its folds. 



A perfectly smooth and circular stone (Fig. 2), which 

 with propriety may be called the feeling-stone, forms a 

 leading feature of the Dref-Garn. It is about six inches 

 in diameter, by three or four in thickness, and revolves 

 on an iron axle, passed through the centre, thus forming 

 the base of a stirrup as it were. 



This revolving stone is attached to the loop B, at the 

 lower extremity of the side line c, where it forms an angle 

 with the bottom line D. To the upper part of the side line 

 c again, is affixed, by the loop E, the hand-line F, which is 

 stout, and of considerable length. To the outer extremity 

 of the upper line o, and at the angle formed by its junction 

 with the side line H is attached, by means of the loop i, 

 the Dubb-linie, or line j, which is of the thickness of 

 pack-thread, or somewhat stouter. And fastened at the 

 end of this again is the Dubb itself K, consisting of a 

 piece of deal, or other light wood, of the size and shape of 

 a very small sugar-loaf. 



Two men are required to work the Dref-Garn one to ma- 

 nage the boat, the other (whose station is in the stern-sheets) 



