Class IV. PILCHARD. 343 



Herring ; the Italians, Macaroni ; the French? , 

 Jean Pottage; the Germans, Hans Wurst*; 

 and we dignify him with the title of Jack Pud- 

 ding. 



Pilchard . Fuller's Brit . Wor- 223. Rati fyn. pifc. 104. 161. P 1 L - 



tbies, 194. Clupea J. Arted, fynon. 16. CHARD. 



Peltzer. Schonevelde, 40. Pilchard, Borlafe Cornwall, 

 The Pilchard. WiL Icth. 272. 



npHE pilchard appears in vafl: fhoals off the 

 * Cornijh coafts about the middle of July, dis- 

 appearing the beginning of winter, yet fometimes a 

 few return again after Chrifimas. Their winter re- 

 treat is the fame with that of the herring, and their 

 motives for migrating the fame. They affect, du- 

 ring fummer, a warmer latitude, for they are not 

 found in any quantities on any of our coafts except 

 thofe of Cornwall, that is to fay, from Fowey har- 

 bor to the Stilly ifles, between which places the 

 Ihoals keep fhifting for fome weeks. 



The approach of the pilchard is known by much 

 the fame figns as thofe that indicate the arrival of 

 the herring, Perfons, called in Cornwall Fitters* 

 are placed on the cliffs, to point to the boats fta- 

 tioned off the land the courfe of the fifh. By the 

 ift of James I. c. 23, filhermen are empowered to 



* That is, Jack Saufage. 



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