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sed to get a large part of their living from burning seaweeds 
to have made $50,000 a year from the seaweeds that grew along 
the rocky puotee of his ead. eG vad ey was for many 
nd, northern 
France, Norway, and Denmark: ane ve more prosperous 
period of this industry, the value of the seaweed crop on the coast 
st 
apd sci hana it seheaper - convert common salt into 
: sali and various pipe weeds Tere of Fucus and 
In Ireland, 
ae fa Cotton,* “the ‘rods’ (stipes) of the various La- 
minariae employed are teen as they are cast ashore in 
- d 1 dq 7 Tle tll bu 
time. In February and March the weed is also cut by hand 
ae the lowest aides pDusne, Gay last weeks of June and 
eavy moke may be 
seen alone ce a tine ae the leas to this general 
burning provide: many months. 
* Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. 316: 152. 1912. 
