A Book of Mediterranean Food

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at a very considerable expense for
nets, boats, and attendance. Their
nets are disposed in a very curious
manner across the small bay of St
Hospice, in this neighbourhood,
where the fish chiefly resort. They
are never removed, except in the
winter, and when they want
repair; but there are avenues for
the fish to enter, and pass, from
one inclosure to another. There is a
man in a boat, who constantly
keeps watch. When he perceives
they are fairly entered, he has a
method of shutting all the passes,
and confining the fish to one
apartment of the net, which is

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