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boats work ; but long before low water the harbour is left 

 dry, and if the boats are caught in bad weather before 

 the tide rises, they are exposed to great risk, as they 

 cannot enter until the flowing tide has considerably risen. 

 The herrings are accompanied by hake,' cod, and conger, 

 consequently in favourable weather much valuable fish can 

 be caught. If a good harbour were built here, accessible 

 at low water, a larger and more powerful class of boats 

 might be used, and the supply of fish very much 

 increased. 



NORTH CORNISH COAST. 



Port Isaac is a cove on the north coast of Cornwall, 

 but, having no artificial protection, the fishery cannot be 

 followed as it might be. 



The enclosure of the cove by piers, and its conversion 

 thereby into a harbour, would allow of vessels instead of 

 boats being used, and much trawling might be done on 

 ground rarely if ever worked. 



At Newquay is a dry harbour capable of extension, 

 from which would follow extended fishery operations if 

 vessels could depart and arrive at all times of tide. 



PADSTOW. 



In the Western Morning News, March 24, 1883, appeared 

 a fourth article, one of a series, on the subject of " The 

 Proposed Harbour of Refuge," in regard to Padstow : 



" The feature to which most importance is attached in 

 favour of a harbour of refuge at Padstow, is that it is so 

 centrally situated between Hartland Point and the Land's 

 End. Having regard to the stretch of rockbound coast, 

 a dead lee-shore during the heaviest and most dangerous 



