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The demand for sea fish was limited by the cost of its transport . In the metropolis the supply was uncertain and irregular , and the price of fish was so high as almost to exclude it from the tables of all but the rich .
The demand for sea fish was limited by the cost of its transport . In the metropolis the supply was uncertain and irregular , and the price of fish was so high as almost to exclude it from the tables of all but the rich .
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If we allow a cod - fish only two herrings per day for his subsistence , and suppose him to feed on herrings for only seven months in the year , we have 420 herrings as his allowance during that period , and fifty cod fish equal one ...
If we allow a cod - fish only two herrings per day for his subsistence , and suppose him to feed on herrings for only seven months in the year , we have 420 herrings as his allowance during that period , and fifty cod fish equal one ...
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a London market with fish , and assuming the annual take for each to be 90 tons , this would give a total of some 80,000 tons of trawled fish . This is irrespective of the vast quantities of herrings , sprats , shell - fish , and fish ...
a London market with fish , and assuming the annual take for each to be 90 tons , this would give a total of some 80,000 tons of trawled fish . This is irrespective of the vast quantities of herrings , sprats , shell - fish , and fish ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 122 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1867 |
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