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considerable length, the meshes very small. 

 There are loop-holes at the top, large 

 enough to admit two fingers, bordered with 

 birch bark, whose edges are sewn together. 

 (See 1, 2, 3, 4 in the figure.) The stones 

 (5, 6, 7) at the bottom are but small, co- 

 vered with birch bark. The nets are set 

 near the sandy shore. 



Another kind of net, used for catching 

 the same fish, is placed in the strongest 

 part of a current or water-fall. It resembles 

 a receiving net, except being not so deep. 

 The length is three ells, breadth two, and 

 depth one. This is fixed very steadily, by 

 means of poles, in the middle of the very 

 strongest and most confined current, against 

 the stream, so that when the fish attempts 

 to pass upwards, by the narrow passages on 



