FISHERY. IO9 



Thefe nets are made of Dutch or Englilh twine ; 

 the mefties are three inches and a half fquare.* 



Every piece of net is thirty or thirty-five fathoms 

 long, and twenty-four pieces form the whole, 

 which the Norwegians call garn foettning. They 

 join them all together, when the fifhing-banks are 

 large enough. The fifliermen make all their nets 

 themfelves, and the women fpin and twift the 

 thread. 



The nets are mounted on cords, the uppermoft 

 whereof is as thick as the little finger : to the 

 lower cord are fixed feveral little rings, which 

 carry fmall bags, full of {tones, whereby the net 

 finks to the bottom, and is kept there. 



To the uppermoft cord there are faftened pieces 

 of very light wood, about fixteen or eighteen 

 inches long, and two inches broad in the middle, 

 and only one inch broad at the ends. One fide is 

 fomewhat curved, and the other quite flat. It is 

 by the flat fide that they are faftened to the cord, 

 and fuch pieces are placed all along the cord, at 

 the diftance of eighteen inches from each other : 

 they ferve to keep the nets fufpended vertically and 

 firm, ftiould there even be a high fea, currents, &c. 



In a certain feafon of the year, cod quit the 

 bottom of the fea, and keep in ten^ fifteen, or 

 twenty fathom water : to keep the nets at that 



* More or lefs ; for, as the cod 13 fometimes larger, fome- 

 times finaller, they adapt the rnefhes to the fize of the fifh. 



depth, 



