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ance, and in Normandy they are named sansonnets, and 

 roblots in Picardy ; that they are full towards the month of 

 May, and are taken in abundance in this state during the 

 whole month of June and a part of July; and that some are 

 there seen when the month of August is pretty far advanced. 

 But they are then empty. Towards the last days of Septem- 

 ber, and in October, some small ones are fished, which ap- 

 pear to have been born within the year. But all this is very 

 irregular, and it is by no means rare to take mackerel in 

 the Channel in the months of November and December. 

 Their appearance at these unusual seasons is attributed to 

 tempests and foul weather, which proves that they have not 

 retired so far northwards as has been pretended. 



Duhamel, like Anderson, has maintained that the mackerel 

 enter the Channel by the west, and follow a contrary route to 

 that of the herrings ; and yet in the same page he tells us 

 that the fishermen of Dunkirk take them before those of 

 Dieppe and Havre, and a little farther, that the fishery 

 which takes place at Yarmouth precedes that which the 

 Bretons carry on at the entrance of the channel. 



According to Low, large troops of them appear at the 

 Orcades at the end of July and commencement of August. 



Schonevelde tells us that the mackerel is pretty nearly un- 

 known on the western coast of Holstein, and that some few 

 only are taken towards St. Jacques, around the island of 

 Heligoland; but he acknowledges that there are some in the 

 Baltic. Even young ones are born there, for the fishermen of 

 Ecreford, on the eastern coast of Holstein, name the little 

 mackerel, about a palm long, prieglers. 



What renders the account of Anderson, respecting thegrea 

 voyages of the mackerel more doubtful, is, that the catching o 

 this fish commences in the Mediterranean at the same time 

 as in the North Sea, and in the Channel, and even sooner. 



They are taken at Aiguemortes from the month of April to 



