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NEWHAVEN FISHWIVES. 



[CHAP. x. 



practise and teach the art. Some fishing villages are known 

 to have originated in the shipwreck of a foreign vessel, when 

 the people saved from destruction squatted on the nearest 

 shore and grew in the fulness of time into a community. 



NEWHAVEN FISHWIVES. 



Kewhaven is most celebrated for its " fishwives," who were 

 declared by King George IV. to be the handsomest women he 

 had ever seen, and were looked upon by Queen Victoria with 

 eyes of wonder and admiration. The Newhaven fishwife 

 must not be confounded by those who are unacquainted in the 

 locality with the squalid fish-hawkers of Dublin ; nor ; although 

 they can use strong language occasionally, are they to be 

 taken as examples of the genus peculiar to Billingsgate. The' 



