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BRITISH INDUSTRIES. 



the Mediterranean since 1815, and they afford good 

 evidence of the fluctuations in the success of the sean 

 fishery : 



In Mount's Bay, seaning is also carried on, as well as 

 on many other parts of the south coast of Cornwall, but 

 the nets are fewer than at St. Ives, and being distributed 

 in suitable localities along some extent of coast, there 

 is little occasion for the same strict regulations about 

 working them as are practically necessary at St. Ives. 

 Some of them, however, are by common consent adopted. 

 Newlyn and Mousehole, close to Penzance, are the 

 important fishing places in Mount's Bay ; and it is from 

 these villages that the celebrated Mount's Bay luggers 

 * Fish of previous season. 



