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don in baikets, unlefs now and then the veflel is 

 difappointed by contrary winds, of failing imme- 

 diately^ in that cafe the fifh is brought afliore again 

 to the coopers offices, and boiled, pickled, and 

 kitted, and fent to the London markets by the 

 fame fhip, and frefh falmon put in the bafkets in 

 lieu of the ftale ones. At the beginning of the fea- 

 FaicE. fon, when a fhip is on the point of failing, a frefh 

 clean falmon will fell from a ihilling to eighteen 

 pence a pound, and moil of the time that this part 

 of the trade i^ carried on, the prices are from five 

 to nine lliillings per Hone*, the value rifing and 

 falling according to the plenty of fifh, or the pro» 

 fpedl of a fair or foul wind. Some filh are fent in 

 this m.anner to London the latter end of September^ 

 when the weather grows cool, but then the fifh are 

 full of large roes, grow very thin bellied, and are 

 not efteemed either palatable or wholefome. 



The price of frefh fifh in the month of Julf^ 

 when they are moil plentiful, has been known to 

 be as low as ^d. per ftone, but lafl year never 

 lefs than i6d. and from that to is, 6d. 

 Season. The feafon for fifning in the Tweed begins No- 



vember 30th, but the fifhermen work very little till 

 after Chriflmas-^ it ends on Michaelmas-Bay, yet 

 the corporation of Berwick (who are confervators 



*Aiioneof falmon weighs 18 lb. 10 oz. and half, or ia 

 other terms, four ftones, or fifty-fix pounds avoirdupoife/ is 

 only three ftones, or forty-two pounds, fifh weight at Ber-uoich. 



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