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their peculiar Track, is well known, which 

 are very advantageous Circumftances, though 

 fometimes it may vary 10 or 13 Days, by 

 means of flrong Winds or bad Weather. Wc 

 may form an adequate Idea of other Fifh of 

 Pailage from the Herrings and Cods, The 

 former feem to have their principal Rendez- 

 vous between the Points o^ Scotland^ Norway ^ 

 and Denmark. From thence the DaniJJo Co- 

 lonies take their annual Progrcfs, and, at diffe- 

 rent Seafons, crofs the Channel. Their Voy- 

 age is performed with the utmoft Exadlnefs : 

 TheirTrack is prefcribed, and their March re- 

 gelated. The whole Body move at once •, not 

 one of them prefumes to ftruggle, pillage, or 

 defert. When the Body of their Army is 

 once pafTed, not one of the fame Species ap- 

 pears again till the Year enfuing. An infi- 

 nite Number of Worms and little FiiGh are 

 bred every Summer in the Channel, with 

 which the Herrings regale themfelves. They 

 are a Sort of Manna, which thefe Animals 

 never fail of picking up \ and when they 

 have cleared the Seas in the Northern Parts of 

 Europe^ they defcend towards the South, to 

 which they are attracted by the pleafmg Prof- 

 pe(5l of a new Stock of Provifions. 



We have but very few Cod-fifh in our Seas. 

 Their general Rendezvous is at the immenfe 

 Bank before Nezvfou?idland, There they are 

 fo numerous, that the Fifhermen, who refort 

 thither from all Parts, are conftantly employed, 

 and find their Labours attended with furpriz- 



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