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Essay On The Writings Of Lord Chesterfield.
preacher ) are adulation to those we despise , courtesy to those we hate , connections without friendship , professions without meaning , good humour without benevolence , good manners without morals , appearances saved , and realities , sacrificed ! ' From these enlightening maxims may God preserve us and our children . W-,
An Account Of The Fisheries Of The River Ban, In Ireland.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FISHERIES OF THE RIVER BAN , IN IRELAND .
HFHE river Ran , so celebrated for its salmon fishery , takes its risfc ¦ ^ in Lough Neagh , ( the greatest lake , that of Ladoga , near Petersburg !] , ¦ excepted , in Europe ) whence , after a N . N . E . course of about twenty-five miles , in which it divides the counties of Antrim and Londonderry , it falls into the sea , four miles below Colenune ; from which town , to its mouth , it is navigable , though with much
difficulty , on account of its rapid current ; but what nature has denied in the facility of its navigation , is fully compensated by the abundance offish that frequent its waters , particularly eel and salmon . The salmon begin to enter the river from the sea , as indeed is the .. case in almost every other salmon river in Ireland , early in January , , in great numbers , and continue their ascent until Midsummer , when , after depositing their spawn in the several shallow brooks and rivulets that run into the Ban , they return to the ocean , followed in due time by myriads of their offspring .
The eels , on the contrar }' , go to the sea to spawn ; and periodically return to the river , accompanied by their countless progeny ; to facilitate whose access , at the rapid falls of the river , the country people hang straw ropes in the water . When the season for the return of the eels , arrives many of them weigh from seven to ten pounds . The eel fisheries of this river are rented at one thousand pounds a year ; and the salmon and eel fisheries together produce ail annual
revenue to the London Companies , Lord Donegal , & c . of six thousand pounds . The production of so great a revenue from these fisheries of the river Ban will not appear strange , when the amazing fecundity of the fish is considered : in the year 1779 there were four hundred tons of salmon taken , two bunded of which were disposed of fresh on the spot , at from one penny to three halfpence per pound ;
the remainder salted for exportation , arid sold at from 181 . to 20 J . per ton . It is remarkable , that though all the great rivers in Ireland abound with salmon , which on the spot are sold at the low rate here mentioned , yet in the city of Dublin a pound of pickled salmon cannot be had under sixteen or eighteen pence ; while in London the best Newcastle pickled salmon is to be had at six pence per pound : .. a circum-i stance surel y not very creditable to Irish industry .
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Essay On The Writings Of Lord Chesterfield.
preacher ) are adulation to those we despise , courtesy to those we hate , connections without friendship , professions without meaning , good humour without benevolence , good manners without morals , appearances saved , and realities , sacrificed ! ' From these enlightening maxims may God preserve us and our children . W-,
An Account Of The Fisheries Of The River Ban, In Ireland.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FISHERIES OF THE RIVER BAN , IN IRELAND .
HFHE river Ran , so celebrated for its salmon fishery , takes its risfc ¦ ^ in Lough Neagh , ( the greatest lake , that of Ladoga , near Petersburg !] , ¦ excepted , in Europe ) whence , after a N . N . E . course of about twenty-five miles , in which it divides the counties of Antrim and Londonderry , it falls into the sea , four miles below Colenune ; from which town , to its mouth , it is navigable , though with much
difficulty , on account of its rapid current ; but what nature has denied in the facility of its navigation , is fully compensated by the abundance offish that frequent its waters , particularly eel and salmon . The salmon begin to enter the river from the sea , as indeed is the .. case in almost every other salmon river in Ireland , early in January , , in great numbers , and continue their ascent until Midsummer , when , after depositing their spawn in the several shallow brooks and rivulets that run into the Ban , they return to the ocean , followed in due time by myriads of their offspring .
The eels , on the contrar }' , go to the sea to spawn ; and periodically return to the river , accompanied by their countless progeny ; to facilitate whose access , at the rapid falls of the river , the country people hang straw ropes in the water . When the season for the return of the eels , arrives many of them weigh from seven to ten pounds . The eel fisheries of this river are rented at one thousand pounds a year ; and the salmon and eel fisheries together produce ail annual
revenue to the London Companies , Lord Donegal , & c . of six thousand pounds . The production of so great a revenue from these fisheries of the river Ban will not appear strange , when the amazing fecundity of the fish is considered : in the year 1779 there were four hundred tons of salmon taken , two bunded of which were disposed of fresh on the spot , at from one penny to three halfpence per pound ;
the remainder salted for exportation , arid sold at from 181 . to 20 J . per ton . It is remarkable , that though all the great rivers in Ireland abound with salmon , which on the spot are sold at the low rate here mentioned , yet in the city of Dublin a pound of pickled salmon cannot be had under sixteen or eighteen pence ; while in London the best Newcastle pickled salmon is to be had at six pence per pound : .. a circum-i stance surel y not very creditable to Irish industry .