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W. longitude. Its nearness and the prevailing winds 

 make that place very suitable for curing-stations and 

 dep6ts for ships fishing at EockaU; and when the 

 railway is finished next year from Dublin to Castle- 

 bar, fish can be conveyed from Belderig to London 

 in thirty-six hours. The proprietor, Mr. John Eoss 

 Foord, Eochester, Kent, England, states to me that 

 he wDl be most happy to give every facOity to parties 

 -wishing to erect stations, &c., and is willing to give 

 masters and owners of vessels every information on 

 the subject on applying to him. 



"The previous letters in The Times, announcing 

 the discovery of this extraordinary fishing-ground, 

 have created a great sensation among the cod- 

 smacksmen and all connected with these fisheries ; 

 and Captain John Ehodes, of the Resolution, has 

 become the most popular man of his class from 

 Grimsby to Gravesend, for we are informed that 

 he never appears in public now in those places, 

 but a crowd of men and boys gather at his heels, 

 shouting 'Three cheers for EockaU !' and he is about 

 to reach the veiy acme of English popularity, as 

 his portrait is shortly to appear above the doors of 

 a Ehodes Hotel and EockaU Coffee-room, in the 

 good town of Grimsby, and no doubt the example 

 will be followed by the other coast towns of Essex 



