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Proceeding from these generalities, we must now 

 consider the French fishing-ports more closely, and, 

 by comparing them to those of our neighbours, consider 

 what modifications of a technical or administrative 

 category should be effected. 



The port of Boulogne, situated in the estuary of the 

 Liane, comprises an outer harbour and three docks. The 

 first of these docks is a continuation of the entrance 

 channel ; it receives trawlers, herring boats, and the , 

 boats of line-fishers, who enter and land their fish there. 

 The quay, which is on the side of the town, has only 

 a very insufficient market, where the fish is sold by 

 auction. The carriage of fish, ice, and coal is effected 

 entirely by means of carts. The second dock, above 

 the first, and fed partly by the waters of the Liane, is 

 hardly used. The third communicates with the outer 

 port by means of a lock ; it is used by merchant vessels 

 and by trawlers out of commission or in process of 

 fitting out. 



During the Newfoundland season the harbour of 

 Fecamp is deserted. It recalls the harbour of Boulogne : 

 an entrance channel, a large dock with gates and sluices, 

 known as the Berigny basin, and to the right of the 

 Berigny basin, receiving the waters of the river Valmont, 

 a new outer harbour, a semi-tidal basin, and the " new 

 basin," which is irregular in shape. At the moment of 

 departure for the banks the vessels are crowded together 

 anyhow; the whole harbour bristles with masts. At 

 Boulogne and Fecamp there are building-slips in the 

 outer harbour, and, at some distance from the quays, 

 factories for salting, drying, smoking, &c. 



It is useless to describe the rest of the French 



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