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and Ikates ; there the buGnefs is carried on in a more e*e 
peditious manner, for as the fiihers have no occaGon to 
wait the returns of the tide, each man takes along with 
him twice the number of lines, which he continues to 
bait, haul, and Gioot, without interruption. 
But this method of fifliing, operofe as it may feem, and 
this extent of line, though it runs three miles along the 
bottom, is trifling when compared to the exertions made 
in the Mediterranean by the Italian Gibers; there they 
go to fea in a Tartan , a veffel much larger than ours ; 
and they bait a line of no lefs than twenty miles long* 
with above ten thoufand hooks. This line is called the 
parijina ; and the Gftiing goes by the name of pielago *• 
A piece of tackle of fuch enormous length, it is impofli- 
ble to hawl and Ihoot in the fame fpace with the Enghjh 
lines : it remains for a conGderable fpace in the fea, and 
cannot be taken up in lefs than twenty-four hours. By this 
apparatus, they not only take rays, but fharks and other 
G(h 5 fome of which are above a thoufand pound weight. 
When a Gflr of this magnitude is found at the line, the 
fifliermen are provided with an harpoon to difpatch the# 
before they are brought on board. 
* fUk Goldihaith. 
