PLATE XLVI. 
abounds with them, yet upon the whole there are few fisheries esta- 
blished for its capture, that are carried on with any proper degree of 
®Pint ; those on the eastern side of the island perhaps excepted. At 
Scarborough, we are assured by an intelligent friend, Mr. Travis * 
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* To the reader who may be desirous of obtaining information respecting tlie Turbot 
fishery, the following extract from a letter communicated by tlie father of this gentle- 
•"au to Mr. Pennant, and afterwards in.scrted in the Itritish Zoology, may not prove 
’tttacceptable, as bemg the most correct and ample' we have been able to obtain upon 
tins subject. 
" When they (the fishermen) go out to fish, each man is provided with three lines : 
®®ch man’s lines are fairly coiled upon a flat, oblong piece of wickerw'ort : the hooks 
baited, and placed very regularly in the centre of the coil : each line is furnished 
'^tth fourteen score of hooks, at the distance of six feet two inches from each other : the 
ooks are fastened to the lines upon sneads of twisted horse-hair, seventeen inches in 
®*'gth ; When fishing, there are always three men in each cobble, and consequently 
of these lines are fastened together, and used as one line, extending in length near 
^^ee miles, and furnished with S520 hooks ; an anchor and a buoy are fixed at the 
end of the line, and one more at each end of each man’s lines, in all four anchors, 
'''*'ich are commonly perforated stones, and four buoys made of leather and cork : tlie 
is always laid across the current : the tides of flood and ebb continue an equal time 
Pon our coast, and when undisturbed by winds, run each way about six hours : they 
so rapid that the fishermen can only shoot and haul their lines at each turn of the 
and therefore the lines always remain on the ground about six hours : the same 
Rapidity of the tide prevents their using hand-lines, and therefore two of the people 
'ommonly wrap themselves in the sail and sleep, while the other keeps a strict look-out, 
t of being run down by ships, and to observe the weather ; for stonns often rise 
^ ddeiily, that it is with extreme dilEculty they can escape to shore, leaving their 
. _ ^^lilnd. 'Pile cobble is twenty feet six inches long, and five feet extreme breadth : 
^ bout one ton burthen, rowed with three pair of oars, and admirably constructed 
the purposes of cncounteriug a mountainous sea : they hoist sail when the wind 
suits_» 
