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to the Chairman for presiding. Mr. Cornish had alluded 

 to three kinds of mackerel, one of which, the green, was 

 unwholesome ; and he was glad to hear the explanation, 

 because not long ago his crew, who were Irish, came one 

 morning and said they were all very bad from eating 

 mackerel that had been in the moonlight. He concluded 

 that it was this green mackerel. He had oftentimes en- 

 joyed the pleasure of fishing off the Cornish coast, and had 

 always met with the greatest kindness from fishermen and 

 others; and he could recommend any one who wanted a 

 good fishing ground where they could catch all manner of 

 fish, to go, when the wind was not to the south or west, and 

 lie off Penzance. They might catch there every kind of 

 fish, from the mackerel down to the beautiful jelly-fish 

 which Mr. Cornish had alluded to, which he had often 

 watched on a calm day struggling to make head against 

 the tide, but eventually drifting with it ; and perhaps the 

 Chairman would recollect that they had it on the authority 

 of a noble duke, that certain friends of his, who were as 

 brilliant in talents as these jelly-fish were in colour, were 

 also in the habit of drifting with the tide. 



Mr. HORNBLOWER seconded the motion, which was 

 carried unanimously. 



The CHAIRMAN, in response, said it had given him much 

 pleasure to be present at a discussion of so practical a 

 character. There were many points on which he should 

 have liked to touch had the time not been so far advanced, 

 but he would only say, in correction of what Mr. Fryer had 

 said, that the Cornish proverb was that the devil would not 

 come into Cornwall because he was afraid of being put into 

 a pie. 



