more considerable fishery of it in
Sardinia, where it is said to employ
four hundred persons; but this
belongs to the duc de St Pierre. In
the neighbourhood of Villa Franca,
there are people always employed
in fishing for coral and sponge,
which grow adhering to the rocks
under water. Their methods do not
savour much of ingenuity. For the
coral, they lower down a swab,
composed of what is called
spunyarn on board our ships of
war, hanging in distinct threads,
and sunk by means of a great
weight, which, striking against the
coral in its descent, disengages it
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