COD FISHERY. 



the baits are renewed immediately, and the lines 

 laid out again, to be taken up in the evening. 

 Thefe large lines cannot be laid out, but at a little 

 diflance from the coaft, and where there is no great 

 depth of water ; on which account, it is ufually 

 fmall Mi, that is taken with them. This method 

 of fifhing cannot be ufed in deep water. 



It happens fometimes, that the cod, without 

 being purfued by large fifties, collect in great 

 numbers in creeks, where the fiftiery is very good. 



When purfued by large fifties, they come in 

 fwarms into the creeks, and fometimes, fo precipi- 

 tately, that many of them are daflied againfl the 

 coaft. As they are frightened, they will not bite at 

 the hooks, and therefpre, in this cafe, the fifher- 

 men lay out nets at night acrofs the creeks, and 

 ufually find a great quantity of fifh in them the 

 next morning. 



Cod of the Meufe.. 



There is no cod taken either in the Meufe, or 

 near that coaft. However, the name of Cod of 

 the Meufe is famous in Holland and Flanders. It 

 is called fo, becaufe the people, that live in the 

 towns near the mouth of the Meufe, go out into 

 the German Sea to fifh for cod, in large boats 

 called hookers^ in which is a well for keeping the 

 fifti alive. Such fifb, as th,ey bring home alive, 

 they put into refervoirs, through which the water 



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