Between Tirois Kl-vieres and '^lehec . ^3 



and are about a yard high, and two feet and 

 a half wide: on one fide near the bottom is 

 an entrance for the fiflieSj made of twigs, and 

 fometimesof yarn made into a net. Oppofite 

 to this entrance, on the other ^lA^ of the weel, 

 looking towards the lower part of the river, 

 is anotherentrance, like the (irft, and leading 

 to a box of boards about four foot long, two 

 deep, and two broad. Near each of the 

 weels is a hedge, leading obliquely to tbe 

 long hedge, and making an acute angle with 

 it. This latter hedge is made in order to lead 

 the fi{h into the trap, and it is placed on 

 that end of the long hedge which looks to- 

 wards the upper part of the river j now when 

 the tide comes up the river, the fiili, and 

 chiefly the eels, go up with it along the river 

 fide; when the water begins to ebb, the 

 fi(h likewife go down the river, and meeting; 

 with the hedges, they fwim along them, till 

 they come through the weels into the boxes 

 of boards, at the top of which there is a 

 hole with a cover, through which the fifh 

 could be taken out. This apparatus is 

 chiefly made on account of the eels. In 

 feme places hereabouts they place nets in- 

 flead of the hedges of twigs. 



The iliores of the river now confiflied 

 no more of pure earth j but of a fpecies of 

 flate. They are very deep and nearly per- 

 pendicular 



