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we may ut^term ^ V0Urable to tho s P on S e harvest, if 
fishery, Batroun twenty T ^ ' mmheH about tei1 boats to the 
Sb m about a hundred ^ P ° h twollt y-five to thirty, Kalki fifty, 
Kalminog more than twobiSS^ The “? and 
b °ats fishing for snonnes „T • B operations of one of these 
The boat’s crew comists of fo * ^7 18 re P resented in Pl - 1 - 
al °ng the coast for two or thre * 7 7® men ’ wbo scatter themselyes 
chffs and ledges of rock. ^ 7 ! n seareb °f sponges under the 
shallow waters. The finer kindTa ° f lnfe ™ r f i ua % »» gathered in 
twelve to twenty fathoms Se Z 7 at a ^ of 
toothed harpoons, by the aidofJ T ^ ^ tb ^e-tined 
f° cb * h* -t without ^ dilw i 7 "" t0In W tbeir 
Pmds of sponges, on the other hand^re^llTi 7 The finer 
knife; they are carefully detached TT, ^ dlVei ' S aided a 
brought up by diving, is mmwL price <* a sponge, 
harpooned sponge. Among divers ZsTfr^ ^ tbat of a 
particularly renowned Thlv 7i 7 Aminos and of lAara 
&ve fathoms, remain doum a sbortl • ^ t0 ^ deptb of twen" 
f l ™e ”1> * --re abundant £1, ™ t” ?! ?**" and 
pelago furnishes few fine snon™* i ' fishing of the Archi- 
of very common ones. The Syrian ^°^ 1Limercr ‘’ but a great quantity 
many of f, 
°” «“ otter land, thi "nil medium 
coast are of great dimensions of I Z T ^shed from the Barbary 
m England. On the Bahama banks'' 7 mUcb son 8 ht for 
XT’ S'™ i" water of 8mall ^ <* Mexico, 11. 
American, and English, sink a ] 0 J l f 1 fisbermeil > Spanish, 
!?"* tte " »-* ^ tt. w, te ; 
ttis m. am a ,. y , lffilly , 1 > dr »P "P°n the sponges ; by 
n the Bed Sea, the Arabs fisli t 
I'ing either sold to the English' 1?“®“ bj di ™S, " ,,:ir Produce 
Sttmg is cried on at If* « «* Sponge 
,uf »ithont any intelligent direction , f'°" J ln tke Mediterranean, 
«hout any conservative foresight' f “ “Meqnenee it is effected 
tte trade in Ufi, protat A ‘ ‘>\e came rime, however, 
question of time when the tmde “hdl 8 ' “ is »">? * 
"err yea, cleam the submarine fields 7^^“ 
ese zoophytes cause 
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