THE HOUSEKEEPER'S GUIDE TO THE FISH-MARKET FOR EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR; AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE FISHES AND FISHERIES OF Devon and Cornwall, IN RESPECT OF COMMERCE, ECONOMY, NATURAL HISTORY, BY J. C. BELLAMY, SURGEON; Author of " Natural History of South Devon ;" One of the Curators to the LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW; EDWARD NETTLETON, WHIMPLE STREET, PLYMOUTH, Printer to Her Majesty and H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex. 1813. CONTENTS. 2.-Economical Register and Monthly List. 3.-Table shewing the months in which Fishes are 4.-Observations respecting the seasons in which Fishes 5.-Observations connected with the economical im- 6.-Migrations of the Fishes of Devon and Cornwall. -Table of the Migrations of the Salmon and 7.-Statistical Statements.--Implements used in the THE HOUSEKEEPER'S GUIDE TO THE FISH MARKET, &c. &c. THE author of this little book hopes it is supererogation to suggest an apology for its production, or to argue the importance of his subject. Every civilized community should, he thinks, be aware of the natural resources which surround it,-offering to the mercantile, the trading, the industrious, and even the wealthier classes much of the means of their support. |