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have produced. The success of the fishery in 1821 

 was beyond all precedent. The value of the catch 

 of sixteen boats from LowestofFe, 011 the 30th of 

 June, was 52521. ; and it is supposed that there was 

 no less an amount than 14,000/. altogether realized 

 by the owners and men concerned in the fishery of 

 the Suffolk coast. In March, 1833, on a Sunday, 

 four Hastings boats brought on shore ten thousand 

 eight hundred Mackarel ; and the next day two 

 boats brought seven thousand fish. Early in the 

 month of February, 1834, one boat's crew from 

 Hastings cleared 1001. by the fish caught in one 

 night ; and a large quantity of very fine Mackarel 

 appeared in the London market in the second week 

 of the same month : they were cried through the 

 streets of London three for a shilling on the 14th 

 and 22nd of March, 1834, and had then been plen- 

 tiful for a month. 



" The boats engaged in fishing are usually attended 

 by other fast-sailing vessels, which are sent away 

 with the fish taken. From some situations these 

 vessels sail away direct for the London market ; 

 at others, they make for the nearest point from 

 which they can obtain land carriage for their fish. 

 From Hastings and other fishing towns on the Sus- 

 sex coast the fish are brought to London by vans, 

 which travel up during the night." 



We are constrained to refer the reader to Mr. 

 Yarrell's -own account of the mode in which the 

 Mackarel fishery is carried on upon our coast, merely 

 observing, that it is by drift nets of great dimen- 



