Class IV. CONGER. 149 



celona. The quantities that were fent from Moimfi- 

 Bay for jSve years^ were as follow : 





Cwt. 



r- 



/^. 



iT5^ 



46 







13 



1757 



164 







21 



1758 



164 



I 



a 



^759 



213 







3 



1760 



71 



3 







Some are taken by a fingle hook and line, but CAPTUf-E, 

 (becaufe that way is tedious, and does not anfwer 

 the expence of time and labour) they are chiefly 

 caught by Butters^ which are flrong lines five hua- 

 dred feet long, with fixty hooks, each eight feet 

 afunder, baited with pilchards or mackrel: the 

 Butters are funk to the ground by a ftone fattened 

 to them : fomedmes fuch a number of thefe are tied 

 together as to reach a mile. \ 



We have been told that the fiHiermen are very 

 fearful of a large conger, lead it fliould endanger 

 their legs by clinging round them \ they therefore 

 kill them as foon as poflible by itriking them oa 

 the navel. 



They are afterwards cured in this manner: they Csirc* 

 are (lit, and hung on a frame till they dry, hav- 

 ing a confiderable quantity of fat, which it is ne- 

 cefTary fhould exude before they are fit for ufe. 

 It is remarkable that a conger of a hundred weight 

 will wafle by drying to twenty-four pounds ; the 

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