200 WASTE OF fISH, &C. 



Rtfcrence to the Figure, Plate V. Fig. 2. 



A A, A A. The cxfernal parallel rules, BB the central rule, 



C D,C D the connecting pieces, D D the fegments of tootl^i^d 



wheels in which the conncding pieces terminate, which by 



their aftion on each other prevent tide deviation in A A,A A. 



IV. 



I 

 Letter from an Enquikek, on the TVaJle of Fifk ajferted io be 

 made on the Scottijh Couji. In Replt/ to A. L, 



To Mr. NICHOLSON, 

 SIK, London, Feb. 7, 1806. 



Proper (pint of 1 AGREE mofi cordially with your Correfpondent A. L. of 

 puUicatioa'I -Aberdeen, in page 168, with regard to the accuracy of im- 

 portant information when communicated (o the public, and 

 that when doubts exifl, it (hould be given with fo much 

 modetly and diffidence, as to fliew that the communicator is 

 not certain of his fubjea. Of the ftatement I made refpeaing 

 thofe inftances of wafteful negligence in fome fidieries of the 

 north of Scotland, I am not the firft ; the refpedable author 

 of the ftatiftical account of the parifi; of Peterhead, the Rev. 

 Scotch fifheries. Dr. Moir, has atferted the fame, limited to that parifli that I 

 did. In the 16th Vol. p. 5.50 of that work, he fays, " turbot 

 (I believe the holybut of the London market) is now caught 

 frequently, and in great perfeftion. Thirty years ago they 

 were feldom ufed liere, frequentlj/ cajl into the dunghill, or 

 left to ivafie on the fea beach, they at prefent fell from four 

 pence to one (hilling eacli, and are rifing everv day in price;'* 

 in the preceding page of that volume we are informed, that 

 '^ the greateft part of tiie coda' founds, in this pariQi, are 

 permitted to remain and rot on the fea beach, or, are cafi into the 

 dunghill, though the ufe and value of them as an article of 

 food and delicacy at tabic have been known here for many 

 years," and yet in the following paragraph the Dodor tells 

 iiis readers, " tliat the crews of the fliips have been fent from 

 this town to Barryhead, to preferve the founds, tongues, and. 

 palate.< of the cod caught there, and the owners have always 



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