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manager of the Furness Railway Company, for a similar 
statement for the year 1898, which is here reproduced. 
TaBLE V.—WEIGHT OF COCKLES, IN TONS, forwarded 
from ten stations on the Furness Raruway for the two 
years 1877 and 1898 :— 
Stations. 1877. 1898. 
Barrow es ie aie 10 0 
Piel “eh nies ae 70 0 
Dalton Bre che ae 80 0 
Askam seh ieee fe 220 2 
Millom ee se a 343 0 
Ulverston ... hs ae 290 341 
Cark-.. ne me ty 1160 1696 
Kent’s Bank mit: ae 25 154 
Arnside rts oe on 5 0 
| Silverdale ... cae om 50 0 
| , 
| Total me sy 2253 2263 
The above Table shews that the amount of cockles for- 
warded by the Furness Railway Company in 1877 from 
ten of their stations does not differ by so much as a half 
per cent. from the amount sent by them in 1898 from the 
same stations. These figures represent the greater portion 
of cockles sent from Morecambe Bay and Duddon. To 
complete the comparison the amount taken from the 
southern side of the Bay has to be estimated. The Com- 
missioners valued this as worth £5,000, that is, about 940 
tons were taken from the Bolton-le-Sands and Pilling 
Sands beds in 1877. Since these areas are served by the 
London and North-Western Railway Co., the amount 
stated does not appear in the Table. From the data 
obtainable in the course of the present inquiry, 1t appears 
that the amount of cockles taken from the same areas does 
not exceed 300 tons, and the falling off in the produce of 
these beds accounts for the apparent decrease in the 
