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" that Ferny has exported yearly 1732 hogs- 

 " heads; Falmouth, 14631 hogsheads and two- 

 " thirds; Penzance and Mount' s-Bay, 12149 

 " hogsheads and one-third; St. Ives, 1282 

 " hogsheads : in all amounting to 29795 hogs- 

 " heads. Every hogshead for ten years last 

 " past, together with the bounty allowed for 

 " each hogshead exported, and the oil made 

 " out of each hogshead, has amounted, one year 

 " with another at an average, to the price of 

 " one pound thirteen shillings and three-pence; 

 " so that the cash paid for pilchards exported 

 " has, at a medium, annually amounted to the 

 11 sum of forty-nine thousand five hundred and 

 " thirty-two pounds ten shillings." 



The number taken at one shooting out of the 

 nets, is amazingly great. Dr. Borlase assured 

 me, that on the 5th of October, 1767 1 there 

 were at one time inclosed in St. Ives's Bay 7000 

 hogsheads, each hogshead containing 35000 fish, 

 in all 245,000,000. 



This fish has a general likeness to the her- Descrip- 

 ring, but differs in some particulars very essen- 

 tially ; we therefore describe it comparatively 

 with the other, having one of each species before 

 us, both of them of the same length, viz. nine 

 inches and an half. 



TION. 



