A pictorial and descriptive guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport with excursions by river, road and sea . ere the trawlers and hookers may be seen,and there in the early hours of the morning may be witnessedpicturesque scenes, when the fish is landed fresh from thenets and sold, to be afterwards packed ready for conveyanceto London and the Midlands. Hake, pollack, bass, mullet,mackerel, whiting, cod, mallard, smelt, chad, pilchards, andJohn Dorys are the fish most plentifully caught. It is saidthat in the eighteenth century Quin, the actor, was accus-tomed to visit Plymouth in order tha
A pictorial and descriptive guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport with excursions by river, road and sea . ere the trawlers and hookers may be seen,and there in the early hours of the morning may be witnessedpicturesque scenes, when the fish is landed fresh from thenets and sold, to be afterwards packed ready for conveyanceto London and the Midlands. Hake, pollack, bass, mullet,mackerel, whiting, cod, mallard, smelt, chad, pilchards, andJohn Dorys are the fish most plentifully caught. It is saidthat in the eighteenth century Quin, the actor, was accus-tomed to visit Plymouth in order that he might eat the Doryin its freshness. This fish is indigenous to the Mediterraneanand the coasts of Western Europe, and Plymouth is oneof the few fishing ports in England, where it is caught. TheJohn Dory is a flat fish of a metallic yellow or brownisholive, with a black spot on each side, said to be the marksleft by St. Peters fingers when he took the tribute moneyfrom its mouth. Pilchards are also fish seldom seen exceptin the West Country. They are not unlike herrings, buthave a more delicate
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