144 PILCHARD. Class IV. 



go on the grounds of others to hue^ without being 

 liable to anions of trefpafs, which before occafioned 



frequent lawfuits. 



The emoluments that accrue to the inhabitants 

 of that county are great, and are bed exprefied in 

 the words of Dodor W. Borlafe, in his account of 

 the Pilchard filhery. 



" It employs a great number of men on the fea, 

 " training them thereby to naval affairs | employs 

 " men, women, and children, at land, in faking, 

 " prelTing, wafhing, and cleaning, in making 

 ^' boats, nets, ropes, cafKs, and all the trades de- 

 " pending on their confti^dlion and fale. The 

 " poor is fed with the offals of the captures, the 

 *' land with the refufe of the fifh and fait, the mer- 

 " chant finds the gains of commifTion and honeft 

 " commerce, the - fifherman the gains of the filb. 

 '' Ships are often freighted hither with fair, and 

 " into foreign countries with the fifh, carrying off 

 " at the fame time part of our tin. The ufual pro- 

 -^duce of the number of hogfheads exported each 

 ^^ year, for ten years, from 1747 to 1756 inclufive, 

 " from the four ports oi Fawy^ Falmouth^ PenzancCy 

 " and 6"/. Ives^ it appears that Fawy has exported 

 "yearly 1732 hogfheads; Falmouth^ H^S^ hogf- 

 '' heads and two-thirds-, Penzance and Mount s-Bay^ 

 " 12 149 hogfheads and one- third; St, Jves, 1282 

 f^ hogfheads: in all amounting to 29795 hogfheads. 

 ^' Every hogfhead for ten years lafl paft, together 

 P: vyittf the bounty allowed for each hogfhead exr 



f' ported, 



