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A Yawl being towed out. 



wandered, and be removed to other grounds better adapted 

 for fattening. In 1896 the Company were favoured by a 

 heavy spat of which they are now beginning to reap the 

 advantage, and in the year 1900 again the spat was 

 plentiful, causing an experienced diver, who descended 

 quite recently to report on damage alleged to be done by a 

 Norwegian barque, which dragged her anchor in a gale of 

 wind and grounded on the beds, to remark that " it looked 

 a regular Klondike," so plentiful were the oysters and spat 

 he observed. 



There was an extraordinary fall of spat 



ea Soat during the summer of 1901, especially on 



the Kentish flats, many shells and cultch 



being literally covered with it. The flatsmen worked 



several tides on a small piece of ground off Bishopstone, 



called Boulder Hole, which is surrounded by sandstone 



