Coble. 
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lines; and therefore two of the people commonly 
wrap themfelves in the fail, and fleep while the other 
keeps a {trict look-out, for fear of being run down 
by fhips, and to obferve the weather. For ftorms 
often rife fo fuddenly, that it is with extreme difh- 
culty they can fometimes efcape to the fhore, leav- 
ing their lines behind. 
The coble is 20 feet 6 inches long, and 5 feet ex- 
treme breadth. It 1s about one ton burthen, rowed 
with three pair of oars, and admirably conftructed 
for the purpofe of encountering a mountanous fea: 
they hoift fail when the wind fuits. 
The five-men boat is 40 feet long and 15 broad, 
and of 25 tons burthen: it is fo called, tho’ navigated 
by fix men and a boy, becaufe one of the men is 
commonly hired to cook, &c. and does not fhare in 
the profits with the other five. All our able fifher- 
men go in thefe boats to the herring fifhery at Yar- 
mouth the latter end of September, and return about 
the middle of November. ‘The boats are then laid 
up until the beginning of Lent, at which time they 
eo off in them to the edge of the Dogger, and other 
places, to fifh for turbot, cod, ling, fkates, &c. 
They always take two cobles on board, and when 
they come upon their ground, anchor the boat, throw 
out the cobles, and fifh in the fame manner as thofe 
do who go from the fhore in a coble, with this dif- 
ference only; that here each man 1s provided with 
double the quantity of lines, and inftead of wait- 
ing the return of tide in the coble, return to the 
boat and bait their other lines; thus hawling one 
fet, and fhooting another every turn of tide. They 
commonly 
