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Baffin's Bay, and Spitzbergen. There are several ports, such as Stornoway in 

 the Outer Hebrides, which have become trysting-places of hundreds of fishing- 

 boats, which sometimes sail in company, like flocks of gulls taking to flight. 

 The British fisheries employ about 2G,000 boats, manned by 60,000 men, and 

 their produce yields a considerable surplus for exportation to the continent.* 



Fig. 229. — Caxals and Navigable Rivers. 



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The English marine is still further reinforced by a flotilla of 3,400 pleasure yachts, 



varying in size from a few to 700 tons, some amongst them being veritable 



floating palaces. 



British ship-owners are not only called upon to make good the losses resulting 



* Annual value of herrings and other fish, the produce of British fisheries, exported 1875 — 79, 

 £1,291,470. 



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