For, what proportion, 100 hath to 75: the same hath 17 1/7 to 12 6/7: Which is Sesquitertia: that is, as 4, to 3. which make 7.

The herring fishery in Scotland (undoubtedly the greatest fishery of the kind) is carried on from the shore. The larger number of the boats in use for many years past are open clinker-built boats, costing, with their suite of nets, about 200l.

Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed, said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.

Tell her the ioyous time wil not be staid, / Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take;