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Somme. Boulogne and Dieppe send out luggers and 

 yawls, some decked, some open. The cliffs of the Pays 

 de Caux, between Fecamp and Havre, shelter caiques, 

 picoteux, and sloops. The shrimp and flounder boats 

 and the " Norwegians " of the Basse-Seine go up as far 

 as Berville. Trouville and Villerville send out large open 

 boats and plates. Between Port-en-Bessin and Barfleur 

 the cutter rig is common ; at Isigny they are accompanied 

 by goguets. The fishers of the Hougue favour the 

 ftambart, and those of Cherbourg the cutter and the 

 vagudotte. The Biscayans drag their trawls off Granville, 

 Cancale, and Saint-Malo, and are found as far as 

 Treguier, together with the cutters of Saint-Servan and 

 the luggers of Dinan. After a reappearance of the 

 flambarts at Lannion, the rest of the small boats used on 

 the coast are chiefly open boats and cutters. 



The fishing fleets of the sardine ports of Camaret, 

 Douarnenez, Concarneau, and Port-Louis consist of 

 large open boats with two masts. At Camaret there are 

 also lobster boats ; at Concarneau, Audierne, Auray, and 

 Belle-Isle, dundees. Cutters are seen once more at 

 Noirmoutiers, and from Isle d'Oleron to Royan there is a 

 regular medley of rigs : ketches, cutters, luggers, yawls 

 all decked and open boats known as lasses, which hail 

 particularly from Royan. Pauillac sends out small 

 lilardieres, small yawls and calups. In Arcachon we 

 find for the first time the ttfloles or pinasses, which 

 ply along the coast of the Landes as far as Bayonne, 

 where they are seen in company with trainieres. The 

 Mediterranean boats all belong to the Latin type ; they 

 are tartanes,moure de pouar, bettes, gourses, and barquetles; 

 that is, they are mostly of the felucca rig, with short 

 masts raking heavily forward. Some are large, heavily 

 ballasted boats with one huge lateen sail ; some have 



