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recorded by Dr. Pryce (Mineralogia CornuUensis), Mr. Carne 

 (Trans. Royal Geol. Soc. of Cormvall, \, ii, iii, iv ; Journal of the 

 Statistical Societ-ij, iij, Mr. Taylor (Reeis Cyclopcedia, xxiiij, Mr. 

 Grylls (Mining Sheets), Sir Charles Lemon (Journal of the Stafh- 

 tical Society, \), Mr. Courtney (Report of the Royal Cornwall 

 Polytechnic Society, ri), and by Mr. Hunt (Memoirs of the Geological 

 Survey of Great Britain, 1 848-68 j, that they need not be recapit- 

 ulated. 



The equally interesting, but less generally known, Pilchard 

 Circular compiled by Messrs. Bolitho, shows that during the 

 thirty-six years last past * the quantities of fish have varied from 

 3,145 hogsheads t in 1859, to 40,883 hogsheads t in 1847; and 

 the prices oi fish have varied from £1. 10s. per hogshead t in 

 1852, to £4 per hogshead t in 1860. 



•j- "Each hogshead contains 50 gallons, or about 2,500 fish, weighing 

 476 lbs." — Courtney, Reports of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, vi 

 (1838), p. 125. 



" The weight of the hogshead [of pilchards] is four hundi'ed and 



seventj^-six pounds A hogshead contains from two thousand five 



hundred of these fishes, to perhaps three thousand." — Couch, Fishes of the 

 British Islands, iv, pp. 92 — 3. 



