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tides of flood and ebb continue an equal time 

 upon the coast, and when undisturbed by winds 

 run each way abcut six hours. They are so 

 rapid that the fishermen can only shoot and 

 haul their lines at the turn of tide ; and there- 

 fore the lines always remain upon the ground 

 about six hours.* The same rapidity of tide 

 prevents their using hand-lines ; and therefore 

 two of the people commonly wrap themselves 

 in the sail, and sleep while the other keeps a ' 

 strict look-out, for fear of being run down 

 by ships, and to observe the weather; for 

 storms often rise so suddenly, that it is with 

 extreme difficulty they can escape to the shore, 

 leaving their lines behind. 



The coble is twenty feet six inches long, and Coble. 

 five feet extreme breadth. It is about one ton 

 burthen, rowed with three pair of oars, and ad- 

 mirably constructed for the purpose of encoun- 

 tering a mountanous sea : a sail is hoisted when 

 the wind suits. 



The five-men boat is forty feet long and fif- 

 teen broad, and of twenty-five tons burthen : it 

 is so called, though navigated by six men and a 

 boy, because one of the men is commonly hired 



* In this time the Glutinous Hag, p. 10g, will frequently 

 penetrate the fish that are on the hooks, and entirely devour 

 them, leaving only the skin and bones. 



