2^4 T U R B O T. Class IV. 



England^ and others off the Butch coaft ; but we 

 believe the laft has, in many inftances, more credit 

 than it deferves for the abundance of its fifh. 

 Fishery, The large Turbots, and feveral other kinds of 

 flat fifh, are taken by the hook and line, for they 

 lye in deep water : the method of taking them in 

 wares, or llaked nets, is too precarious to be de- 

 pended on for the fupply of our great markets, 

 becaufe it is by meer accident that the great fifh 

 llray into them. 



It is a misfortune to the inhabitants of many of 

 our fifhing coafts, efpecially thofe of the north part 

 oi North Wales ^ that they are unacquainted with 

 the moll: fuccefsful means of capture : for their 

 benefit, and perhaps that of other parts of our 

 ifland, we fhall lay before them the method prac- 

 tifed by the filhermen of Scarborough^ as it was 

 communicated to us by Mr. 'Travis. 



When they go out to flfli, each perfon is pro- 

 LiNEs. vided with three line?. Each man's lines are fair- 

 ly coiled upon a fiat oblong piece of wicker-work ; 

 the hooks being baited, and placed very regularly 

 in the centre of the coil. Each line is furnifhcd 

 with 14 Icore of hooks, at the diftance of fix feet 

 two inches from each other. ■ The hooks are fafl- 

 ened to the lines upon fneads of twifted horfe-hair, 

 27 inches in length. 



When fifhing there are always three men in 

 each coble, and confequendy nine of thefe lines 

 are failened together, and ufed as one line, extend- 



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