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on our coafts ; but from thofe which are caught 

 far to the North, known, in Holland, by the 

 name of pickled herrings^ which are thick, large, 

 fat, with the flavour of a nut, fo delicate and juicy, 

 that they melt away in the cooking, and are eaten 

 raw from the pickle, as we do anchovies. 



The South Pole is not lefs produdive of fiflies 

 than the North, The Nations which are neareft 

 to it, fuch as the inhabitants of the iflands of 

 Georgia, of New Zealand, of Maire's Strait, of the 

 Terra-del-Fuego, of Magellan's Strait, live on 

 fifli, and praâiice hufbandry of no kind. That 

 honeft Navigator, Chevalier A^(7rZ'n/g'^/, fays, in his 

 Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas^ that Port- 

 Defire, which lies in 47°. 48'. South Latitude, is fo 

 filled with pinguins, fea-calves, and fea-lions, that 

 any veflel touching there, may find provifions in 

 abundance. All thefe animals, which are there 

 uncommonly far, live entirely on fifh. When he 

 was in Magellan's Strait, he caught, at a fingle 

 draught of the net, more than five hundred large 

 fifhes, refembling the mullet, as long as a man's 

 legs ; fmelts twenty inches long ; a great quan- 

 tity of fifli like the anchovy : in a word, they 

 found, ofevery fort, fuch an abundantprofufion, that 

 they ate nothing elfe during their ftay in thofe parts. 

 The beautiful mother-of-pearl fliells, which enrich 

 our cabinets, under the name of the Magellan- 



oyfter. 



