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stowed away in bulk, with broken ice between each 

 layer, and this is continued till a good quantity of fish 

 has been collected. Then the vessel returns to port, 

 after an absence of, perhaps, ten or fourteen days. 

 The fish are taken out loose and all sold by weight, 

 the buyer finding the packages : those now regularly 

 used being small barrels holding about ten or twelve 

 stone of fish, and called " kits." In these the fish are 

 packed with alternate layers of crushed ice, and then 

 forwarded to the fishmongers all over the country. 

 Pads, trunks, and pots as the old-fashioned measures 

 were called are quite gone out of use at Hull, and 

 are becoming more so every day at other places. The 

 ice now annually used at Hull in connection with the 

 fisheries is about 25,000 tons. 



A considerable number of small craft belonging to 

 the second class, find employment in the Humber and 

 along the coast to Flamborough in shrimping or line- 

 fishing, and in Bridlington Bay in trawling for flat 

 fish, but there is nothing in these fisheries requiring 

 special notice. 



From Flamborough northward nearly as far as Holy 

 Island, the peculiar boats called "cobles" are in 

 regular use. They vary a good deal in size, but are 

 all built on one principle and with one object, that of 

 readily beaching, stern foremost, in a surf. The bow 

 is built with a considerable rise, and is sharp and 

 hollow below, but the keel extends only for a little 

 more than half the length of the boat. The after-part 

 of the bottom is flat, with a runner or false keel on 

 each side of the central plank, and carried so far for- 



