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tons (in 1904). In other words, when the rates were 

 rather more than halved the traffic was more than 

 trebled, and the railway received nearly 40 per cent, 

 more in freights. 



The Parisian consumes 250 grammes of fish weekly, 

 or *55 of a lb., or 28 Ibs. in a year. In a paper presented 

 by M. Anthony to the Bordeaux Congress, he divided 

 the cities of France as follows into five classes, accord- 

 ing to the annual consumption of fish per inhabitant, 

 (i) Consumption of more than 44 Ibs. : Beauvais, Nice, 

 Marseilles, Havre ; (2) less than 44 Ibs. but more than 

 33 Ibs.: Cherbourg, Nantes; (3) less than 33 Ibs. but more 

 than 22 Ibs. : Paris, Poitiers, &c. ; (4) less than 22 Ibs. but 

 more than n Ibs.: Saint-Nazaire, Orleans, Tours, Avig- 

 non, Roubaix, &c. ; (5) between n and 2-2 Ibs.: Mont- 

 pellier, Lille, Grenoble, Nancy, Lyons, Nevers, Versailles, 

 Roanne. The two extremes are 74*8 Ibs. and 2-2 Ibs. 

 While in England many inland villages and all small 

 towns are provided with well-stocked fishmongers' shops, 

 the inhabitants of many of the lesser cities of France 

 scarcely ever taste salt-water fish, and many peasants 

 have never seen it. A few miles from Fecamp the people 

 do not know what a fresh herring is ! 



Fish does not penetrate into the body of France in 

 any great quantities, except in the preserved form: sar- 

 dines in oil, salt or dried cod, red herrings, &c. The 

 national yield does not always suffice. Sardines are 

 imported from Spain, Portugal, and Algeria ; lobsters 

 from Canada, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, Spain, 

 Portugal and Italy ; salmon from Holland, Great Britain, 

 Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium ; various fresh fish 

 from Algeria, Spain, Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, 

 and Tunis. The Canadian salmon reaches France in a 

 very original manner. It is frozen directly it is caught 



