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Mode of tanning nets Description. 



or haddock that has been twelve hours out of 

 the sea. 



The hooks are two inches and a half long 

 in the shank, and near an inch wide betwixt the 

 shank and the point. They are fastened to the 

 lines upon sneads of twisted horse-hair, twenty- 

 seven inches in length. The line is made of 

 small cording, and is always tanned before it r 

 used. 



For tanning nets a quantity of oak bark is 

 boiled; the liquor is then strained off, and fur- 

 ther boiled till it has contained such a consist- 

 ence, that, when a little is dropped on the 

 thumb nail it will become thick as it cools. The 

 nets are then put into a large vessel, and this 

 liquor is poured while hot upon them. They are 

 suffered to lie four-and-twenty hours, when they 

 are taken out and dried v The same process is 

 repeated three times. Nets that have undergone 

 this operation, are supposed to last thrice as Jong 

 as they would without it. 



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THIS well-known and delicious fish is remark- 

 able for one very extraordinary circumstance ; 

 among various other marine productions, they 

 have been known to feed on shell-fish, although 

 they are furnished with no apparatus whatever 

 in their mouth for reducing thern. to a state cal- 

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