HO COD FISHERY. 



depth, and prevent them from going to the bot- 

 tom, the fiftiermen make life of fmall barrels made of 

 oak or deal, whereby the nets are buoyed up, or 

 fufpended, at the depth required ; ten or twelve 

 of thefe barrels, being placed at equal diftances., 

 float on the furface. 



At each end of the fall of the net, is a double 

 cord, fome fathoms in length, to which is fixed a 

 kind of anchor, called by the Norwegians krake ^ 

 that ferves to keep the nets in the proper direc- 

 tion. This krake (called a killoe in Ireland) is 

 formed of two pieces of wood, joined together in 

 .the form of a compafs, the ends whereof are 

 fattened in another piece of wood, on which is 

 placed a ftone fufficiently large, that is wedged in 

 and kept firm, by the two branches of the krake. 

 The form of this machine prevents it from fattening 

 in the rocks, on which account it is preferred to 

 anchors. To every krake is annexed a rope, and 

 two cords, at the end of which there are placed one 

 or two barrels, made of deal, that float on the fur- 

 face of the water. The firtt krake has one barrel, 

 which ftiews the beginning of the net, and the fe- 

 cond, two, which fhew the other end of it. 



This fifhery is carried on in boats, much like 

 a yacht, with fix men ; fome of whom row, as oc- 

 cafion requires. The drefs of the Norway fimer- 

 men is very well contrived, fo as to flicker them 

 from wet and cold. 



They 



