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consisting of sand mixed with clay beneath, without stones. 

 With the exception of a few rocks near the Cow Rock, always 

 itself above water, within Anglass Point, the bay is clear 

 of hidden dangers. There is a small inner harbour or tide- 

 haven. 



On account of its general advantages it has been recom- 

 mended as an excellent site for a harbour of refuge by the 

 Commissioners on the subject. A very considerable trawl and 

 drift-net fishery might doubtless be carried on from here. 



THE BRISTOL CHANNEL. 



Tenby is a dry harbour, with much trawling ground in 

 the vicinity ; if extended and converted into a floating 

 harbour the fishing could doubtless be more extensively 

 followed ; drift-net fishing for herrings also would increase. 



BIDEFORD BAY. 



Crossing the Bristol Channel to Bideford and Barnstaple 

 Bay, we arrive at a great autumn and winter resort of the 

 herring, but without any good harbourage for fishing 

 craft. Notwithstanding the capacious apparent area 

 on the map of the rivers Taw and Torridge, which 

 unite at Appledore in a spacious estuary, they form a very 

 dangerous harbour, having a very bad bar, entirely exposed 

 to the N.W. i.e. to the ground-swell from the Atlantic. 

 This sometimes for a whole month breaks so violently on 

 the bar that vessels neither enter nor depart from the 

 harbour. This renders it almost useless as a fishing port, 

 in addition to which the tides of both ebb and flood run 

 with the strength of mill-streams. 



In the Bay towards Hartland Point is the small dry 

 harbour of Clovelly, out of which the herring and crab 



