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Pilchard. Fuller's Brit. Worthies. Clupea 0. Arted. fynon. 16. 
194. i 
Peltzer. Schonevelde. 40. Pilehard, | Borla Coracual 
The Pilchard. Wil. Icth. a aias 
 Raii fyn. pife. 104. 
fi gs pilchard appears in vaft fhoals off the 
Cornifh coafts about the middle of uly, dif- 
appear the beginning of winter, yet fometimes a 
few return again after Chrifimas.. Their winter re- 
treat is the fame with that of the herring, and their 
motives for migrating the fame. They affect, during 
fummer, a warmer latitude, for they are not found 
in any quantities on any of our coafts except thofe 
of Cornwall, that is to fay, from Fowey harbor to 
the Sczlly ifles, between which places the fhoals keep 
fhifting for fome weeks. 
The approach of the pilchard is known by much 
the fame figns as thofe that indicate the arrival of the 
herring, Perfons, called inCornwall Huers, are placed 
on the cliffs, to point to the boats ftationed off the land: 
the courfe of the fith. By the 1ft of Fames I. c. 23, 
fifhermen are empowered to go on the grounds of 
others to ue, without being liable to aétions of tref- 
pafs, which before occafioned frequent lawfuits. 
_ The emoluments that accrue to the inhabitants of 
that county are great, and are beft exprefled in the. 
words of Doctor W. Borla/e, in his account of the 
Pilchard fithery. 
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