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The grand fhoal of hadocks comes periodically on 
the York/ire coafts. It is remarkable that they ap- 
peared in 1766 on the roth of December, and exactly 
on the fame day in 1767: thefe fhoals extended from 
the fhore near three miles in breadth, and in length 
from Flamborough head to Tinmouth caftle, and per- 
haps much farther northwards. An idea may be 
given of their numbers by the following fact: three 
fifhermen, within the diftance of a mile. from Scarbo- 
rough harbour, frequently loaded their codle or boat 
with them twice a-day, taking each time about a ton 
of fifh: when they put down their lines beyond the 
diftance of three miles from the fhore, they caught 
nothing but dog fifh, which fhows how exactly thefe 
hth keep their limits. | 
The beft hadocks were fold from eightpence to a 
filling per {core, and the poor had the {maller fore 
at a penny, and fometimes a halfpenny per {core*. 
The large hadocks quit the coaft as foon as they 
go out of feafon, and leave behind great plenty of 
ymall ones. It is faid that the large ones vifit the 
coafts of Hamburgh and Futland in the fummer. 
It is no lefs remarkable than providential, that all 
kinds of fith (except mackrel) which frequent the 
Yorkfhire coaft, approach the fhore, and as if it were 
offer themfelves to us, generally remaining there as 
long as they are in high feafon, and retire from us 
2 when they become unfit for ufe. 
* * Here Mr. Travis, to whom I am much obliged for a moft 
accurate account of the Yoré/ire fifh, with great humanity pro- 
jeéts an inland navigation, toconvey at a cheap and eafy me- 
thod, thofe gifts of Providence to the thoufands of poor manu- 
fafturers who inhabit the diftant parts of that vaft county. : 
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