. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . and placed very regularly in the centre of the coil. When they are used,the nine are generally fastened together so as to form one line with abovetwo thousand hooks, and extending near three miles in length. This isalways laid across the current. An anchor and buoy are fixed at the end ofeach mans line. The boats for this purpose are each about a ton burthen,somewhat more than twenty feet in length, and about five feet in width. The general bait used for taking
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . and placed very regularly in the centre of the coil. When they are used,the nine are generally fastened together so as to form one line with abovetwo thousand hooks, and extending near three miles in length. This isalways laid across the current. An anchor and buoy are fixed at the end ofeach mans line. The boats for this purpose are each about a ton burthen,somewhat more than twenty feet in length, and about five feet in width. The general bait used for taking turbots is fresh herring cut into propersized pieces, at which they bite most readily; they are also partial to thesmaller lampreys, pieces of haddocks, sand-worms, muscles, and limpets;and when none of these are to be had, the fishermen use bullocks are so extremely delicate in the choice of their baits, as not to touch aniece of herring or haddock that has been twelve hours out of the sea; noiwill they touch any bait that has been bitten by another fish. FISH. 743 THE Tnis well-known and delicious fish is remarkable for one extraordinarycircumstance; they have been known to feed on shell-fish, although theyare furnished with no apparatus whatever in their mouth for reducing themto a state calculated for digestion. The stomach, however, has a dissolventpower, which makes up for the want of masticating apparatus. But themost usual food for soles is the spawn and young of other fish. THE LUMP FISH, LUMPSUCKER, OR SEA OWL*
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