Clafs IV. CC Or NG EY Re 117 
kind, being frequently found lodged in fuch that 
are accidentally taken up. 
Thefe fifh are an article of commerce in Corn- 
wall; numbers are taken on that coaft, and exported 
to Spam and Portugal, particularly to Barcelona. 
‘The quantities that were fent from Mount’s-Bay for’ 
five years, are as follow: 
Cwt. qr. lb. 
1756 46 0 13 
1759 164 0 25 
1758 ros) Pg 
1759 213 0 3 
1760 Ry eae 
Some are taken by a fingle hook and line, but capture. 
(becaufe that way is tedious, and does not anfwer 
_ theexpence of time and labor) they are chiefly caught 
by Bulters, which are ftrong lines five hundred feet 
long, with fixty hooks, each eight feet afunder, 
baited with pilchards or mackrel: the Bulters are 
funk to the ground by a ftone faftened to them - 
fometimes fuch a number of thefe are tied together 
as to reach a mile. 
We have been told that the fifhermen are very 
fearful of a large conger, leaft it fhould endanger 
their legs by clinging round them; they therefore 
kill them as foon as poffible by ftriking them on 
the navel. 
They are afterwards cured in this Manner: they 
are flit, and hung on a frame till they dry, having 
a confiderable quantity of fat, which it is neceffary 
fhould 
Cure. 
