362 TAY AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. 



keenness and energy with which the lower fishings are 

 worked, and partly to the alterations made as to the 

 close time, which formerly extended from the 26th of 

 August to the 12th of December, and now dates from 

 the 14th of September to the 1 st of February. Another 

 instance of this variation occurs, in regard to the Red- 

 gorton fishings, which used to bring five hundred and 

 fifty pounds, and were lately let for sixty-five pounds 

 per annum. 



