Class IV. HERRING. 3¥ 



rays ; the pecloral feventeen \ the anal fourteen : 

 the tail is much forked. 



The lateral line is not apparent, unlefs the fcales 

 are taken off: the fides are compreffed : the belly 

 fharply carinated, but the ridge quite fmooth, and 

 not in the left ferrated. 



The fcales are large, thin, and fall off with a 

 flight touch. 



The color of the back and fides green, varied Color, 

 with blue : the belly filvery. 



The herring fifhery is of great antiquity : the Fi«*E*r« 

 induflrious Dutch firft engaged ia it about the year 

 1 1 64: they wei-e in poffeffion of it for feveraj 

 centuries, but at length its value became fo juftly 

 to be known, that it gave rife to molt obflinate 

 and well-difputed wars between the Englijh and 

 them -, but ftill their diligence and fkill gives them 

 a fuperiority over us in that branch of trade. 



Our great ftations are off the Shetland and Wef- 

 tern JJIes, and off the coaft of Norfolk, in which the 

 Dutch alfo fhare. Yarmouth has long been famous 

 for its herring fair * ; that town is obliged, by its 

 charter, to fend to the fheriffs of Norwich one 

 hundred herrings, to be made into twenty-four pies, 

 by them to be delivered to the lord of the manor 

 of Eaft Carleton, who is to convey them to the 



* This fair was regulated by an acl, commonly called the 

 Statute of Herrings t in the 31ft year of Edward III. 



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