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An architect's sketch book (1912)

Peabody, Robert Swain, 1845-1917 · Boston, Houghton Mifflin · leaf 196

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Congress, a thing of the past notonly here but all along our shores. Our lawmakers do indeed seem hopelessly hostile to thingsmarine. With a little help from them, for instance, we might aswe now talk be catching more codfish. What we want here arelaws of repression that will restrict the fisherman… … By the Sea 99 When November comes and the great codfish come in from out-side to spawn on the rocky ledges, they are met by trawls, fourto a boat, with five hundred hooks to each trawl, or by ranks ofcod seines floated near the bottom by glass floats, tended by doriesthat carry naptha engines. When…

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