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of a large rock, if there be sandy ground at the foot, also in 

 sheltered bays and coves of the shore and deep-water harbours, 

 and in fact anywhere, if the locality promises sufficient shelter 

 to warrant leaving it moored without undue risk. On some 

 parts of the coast where the rocks rise like a wall out of the 

 water, although it may be impossible, or at least very difficult, 

 to keep a boat, a trammel may be worked to advantage by 

 taking the opportunity of a fine day to drop a heavy anchor, say 

 of fifty-six pounds, at the distance of fifty fathoms from the 

 rocks, attached to a piece of chain long enough to reach the 

 perpendicular height of spring tides ; to the end of this chain 

 secure a six-inch block, and provide a rope of an inch and a 

 half in circumference, long enough when doubled to reach a 

 few feet above high-water mark on the rocks. By help of this 

 rope you can haul out your net whenever you think fit, and 

 haul it in also to examine it and unmesh the fish, and may thus 

 supply yourself with choice fish, unprocurable by other means, 

 supposing your locality is at a distance from a fish market. 



To set a trammel from a boat the following arrangements 

 are required : Two buoy-lines with corks at intervals and 

 stones at the ends about twenty-five pounds weight must be 

 provided, to one of which, close to the stone, make fast the 

 head-line of the trammel, and at the breadth of the net, above 

 the stone, make fast the cork-line, being careful not to stretch 

 the trammel up too tight, lest the strain be taken by the net- 

 work instead of the buoy-line, which, being stronger than the 

 netting, ought to take .the whole of the strain (fig. 69, p. 226). 



Place the buoy-line carefully in a coil with the stone by 

 itself in the middle of the boat, and proceed to drop the cork- 

 line in the stern-sheets as near the stern as possible, but the 

 lead-line should be in advance of it about three feet, when the 

 slack net will naturally take its place between the two. When 

 you have thus arranged the whole net, place the second buoy- 

 line conveniently, together with the stone, on one side of the 

 net, having first secured the head and foot-lines, as mentioned 

 above, to the buoy-line, which you are now to throw overboard, 

 and then proceed to lower the stone with care and deliberation 

 to the bottom. It is always better that two should be in the 



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