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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

"The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue"

At his appointment they
cast out their Net, draw it to either hand, as the Schoell lyeth,
or fareth, beate with their Oares to keepe in the Fish, and at last,
either close and tucke it vp in the Sea, or draw the same on land,
with more certaine profit, if the ground bee not rough of rockes.
After one companie haue thus shot their Net, another beginneth behind
them, and so a third, as opportunitie serueth. Being so taken, some,
the Countrie people, who attend with their horses and paniers at the
Cliffes side, in great numbers, doe buy and carrie home, the larger
remainder, is by the Marchant, greedily and speedily seized vpon.
They are saued three maner of wayes: by fuming, pressing, or
pickelling. For euery of which, they are first salted and piled vp
row by row in square heapes on the ground in some celler, which they
terme, Bulking, where they so remaine for fome ten daies, vntil the
superfluous moysture of the bloud and salt be soked from them:
which accomplished, they rip the bulk, and saue the residue of the
salt for another like seruice.


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