TIOICS 



336 H E R R I N p. Class IV. 



Dod*, of a few being once tatyfcn in the Bay of 

 Tangier, are never found more f^utherly. 



They are met with in vaft fhc>als on the coaft of 

 America, as low as Carolina. In Chef apeak Bay is 

 an annual inundation of tho& fifh, which cover 

 the fhores in fuch quantities as to become a nu- 

 fance-f. We find them again in the feas of 

 Kamtzchatka, and poffibjy they reach Japan -, for 

 Kampfer mentions, in >iis account of the fifh of 

 that country, fome thai: are congenerous. 



The great winter rendezvous of the herring is 

 within the Arclic circle : there they continue for 

 many months in order to recruit themfelves after 

 the fatigue o f fpawning, the feas within that fpace 

 fwarming with infect food, in a degree far greater 

 than ir our warmer latitudes. 

 Micra- This mighty army begins to put itfelf in motion 



in the fpring ; we diftinguifh this vaft body by 

 that name, for the word herring is derived from 

 the German, Heer, an army, to exprefs their num- 

 bers. 



They begin to appear off the Shetland ifles in 

 April and May ; thefe are only forerunners of the 

 grand fhoal which comes in June, and their appear- 

 ance is marked by certain figns by the numbers of 

 birds, fuch as gannets, and others which follow 

 to prey on them-: but when the main body ap- 

 proaches, its breadth and its depth is fuch as to 



* Natural Hzjr. of the Herring, p. Tfl 

 f Catejby Carol II. XXXIII. 



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