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of our Continent, and pafles through the channel 

 which feparates America from Afia, for we are 

 informed, by a miffionary, that the inhabitants of 

 the land of YafTo go to Japan, to fell, among 

 other dried filhes*, herrings alfo. The Spaniards, 

 who have been attempting difcoveries to the north 

 of California, find all the nations of thofe regions 

 to be fifli-eaters, and unacquainted with every kind 

 of cultivation. Though they landed there only 

 in the middle of Summer, before, perhaps, the 

 fidiingfeafon had commenced, they found pilchers 

 in the greateft abundance, the native country and 

 emigrations of which are the fame, for vaft quan- 

 tities of a fmaller fize, are taken at Archangel. I 

 have eaten of them in Ruflia, at the table of Ma- 

 refchal Count Munich who called them the ancho- 

 vies of the North. 



But as the Northern Seas, which feparate Ame- 

 rica from Alia, are not much known to us, I (hall 

 purfue this fifli no further. I muft, however, ob- 

 ferve, that more than half of thofe herrings are fil- 

 led with eggs, and if the propagation were to go 

 on, to it's full extent, for three or four genera- 

 tions only, without interruption, the Ocean icfelf 

 would be unable to contain them, it is obvious 



* Ecclefiaftical Hiftory of Japan, by Father F. Soliar. Book 

 xix. chap. xi. 



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