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PILCHARD HERRING. Class IV. 



the boats stationed off the land the course of the 

 fish. By the 1st of James I. c. 23, fishermen 

 are empowered to go on the grounds of others 

 to hue, without being liable to actions of tres- 

 pass, which before occasioned frequent law- 

 suits. 



The emoluments that accrue to the inhabi- 

 tants of that country are great, and are best ex- 

 pressed in the words of Doctor JV. Boriase, in 

 his account of the Pilchard fishery. 



" It employs a great number of men on the 

 sea, training them thereby to naval affairs; 

 employs men, women, and children, at land, 

 in salting, pressing, washing, and cleaning, 

 in making boats, nets, ropes, casks, and all 

 the trades depending on their construction 

 and sale. The poor is fed with the offals of 

 the captures, the land with the refuse of the 

 fish and salt, the merchant finds the gains of 

 commission and honest commerce, the fisher- 

 man the gains of the fish. Ships are often 

 freighted hither with salt, and into foreign 

 countries with the fish, carrying off at the 

 same time part of our tin. The usual pro- 

 duce of the number of hogsheads exported 

 each year, for ten years, from 1747 to 1756 

 inclusive, from the four ports of Fozvy, Fal- 

 mouth, Penzance, and St, Ives, it appears 



