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4aken and cured at the North Seas and Iceland 

 Fisheries which they could not otherwise dispose of, 

 and should bring to Mr. J E. Saunders. the agent 

 to the Association, in good marketable condition. 

 It should be understood that the vessels that 

 engage in this fishery are furnished with large 

 w,ells in which a considerable quantity of fish is 

 preserved, and brought alive to the London Market. 

 The live fish form about one-third of their cargo ; 

 the rest of it consists of the fish which they salt 

 and pile i.i the holds of the vessels. In the first 

 season that the above inducement was offered to 

 the fishermen, the Committee had the satisfaction 

 to find, that one hundred tons of salted cod, and 

 fifty tons of fresh cod, were brought to the London 

 Market : none of which would have been other- 

 wise taken. In the next season, the Committee 

 renewed an offer which had before produced so 

 useful an effect ; the consequence was, that the 

 supply then brought amounted to two hundred 

 tons of salted, and one hundred tons of fresh cod ; 

 and in the year 1813, when the Committee again 

 renewed their offer, no less a quantity than six 

 hundred tons of salt cod, and three hundred tons 

 of fresh cod, were thus add-'d to the common stock 

 of human food. The whole of these large quan- 

 tities offish wrre disposed of in the manner before 

 noticed, and formed a material article of the food 

 of that immense body of French prisoners which 

 have since quitted our shores. 



