This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...them several rare, plants. During the months of summer and autumn it is selected as a most favourable spot for hauling the ground seine, for which the shallowness of the water admirably adapts it. I had the good fortune to be present on one occasion when, except that the season was not sufficiently advanced for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...them several rare, plants. During the months of summer and autumn it is selected as a most favourable spot for hauling the ground seine, for which the shallowness of the water admirably adapts it. I had the good fortune to be present on one occasion when, except that the season was not sufficiently advanced for the fish to have come near the shore in large quantities, all circumstances were favourable for this most interesting undertaking. The day had been sultry and cloudless; the wind was from the west (at least so said the fishermen, I could detect none at all), the sea calm, except when it played round an opposing rock or curled, in narrow white lines along the shore; the sun had gone down an hour; the moon was up and at the full, and it was dead low-water and springtide. The boat which carried the net landed myself and the other spectators on the backs of the fishermen who were to act on shore, and who, having politely deposited us on the hard sand, returned for the end of the rope which was attached to the net. The net itself was, as well as I can recollect, upwards of a hundred fathoms long, and three fathoms deep, having a series of corks and leads attached to either edge. The boat then put out to sea until it had reached what was considered the proper distance from land, when the men commenced throwing over the net, simultaneously rowing with all their might across the mouth of the bay. When the net was fairly overboard, they directed their course with all speed towards land, carrying with them a rope attached to the other extremity of the net. This being landed, all hands proceeded to drag the net ashore, gradually bringing the two ropes nearer, until they had arrived at the net itself. All this while, the net, which had assumed a semicircular fig...
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