A tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX / [Thomas Pennant].

  • Thomas Pennant
Date:
1774
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX / [Thomas Pennant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with Lobfters and Crabs, and many other fhell fifh; (no Oyfters) thence, after a fpace covered with clean fand, extending in different places from one to five or fix miles. The bottom, all the way to the edge of the Dogger banks, is a fear-, in fome places very rugged, rocky, and cavernous; in others fmooth, and overgrown with va¬ riety of fubmarine plants, Moffes, Corallines, &cA Some parts again are fpread with fand and fhells *, others, for many leagues in length, with foft mud and ooz, furnifhed by the difeharge of the Tees and Humber. u Upon an attentive review of the whole, it may be clearly in¬ ferred, that the fiiore along the coaft on the one hand, with the edges of the Dogger bank on the other, like the fides of a decoy, give a direction towards our fifhing grounds to the mighty fhoals of Cod, and other fifh, which are well known to come annually from the Northern ocean into our feas ; and fecondly, that the great va¬ riety of fifhing grounds near Scarborough, extending upwards of 16 leagues from the fhore, afford fecure retreats and plenty of proper food for all the various kinds of fifh, and alfo fuitable places for each kind to depofite their fpawn in. “ The fifhery at Scarborough only employs 105 men, and brings in about 5250I. per annum, a trifle to what it would produce, was there a canal from thence to Leeds and Manchefter •, it is pro¬ bable it would then produce above ten times that fum, employ fome thoufands of men, give a comfortable and cheap fubfiftence to our manufacturers, keep the markets moderately reafonable, enable our * I met with on the fhores near Scarborough, fmall fragments of the true red corah . . * man Ur
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