2.38. On THE ANNUAL PASSAGE 
Here another query occurs, what becomes of the young 
fry, the produce of the fpawn they left in the frefh waters: 
of America? We know they do not follow the old ones- 
the firft feafon, becaufe they are found in great {cooles in 
all the American bays during the fummer, and difappear 
in the fall, from whence it may rationally be fuppofed that 
from their natural propenfity to keep at a certain diftance 
from the fun, the teafon leads them to a different courfe: 
from the old ones, by which they meet their parentage: 
about the latitude 23° N. and 70° W. longitude, and there 
tack about and follow the older ones; which, being larger: 
and ftronger than the younger, come firft into our harbours,. 
but are fewer in number than the lefler, probably from: 
having fuffered great lofs and pillage in their long rout: 
from the fifth of prey, and their greater enemies the fifh— 
ermen in the different parts of the world. 
A Table fhewing nearly about the place of the grand {coole: 
of herrings, and their mean diftance from the fun. 
Sun’s De- | ‘the Mean 
* Place and Time. Latitude. | Longitnde.| clination. | Diftance. 
prretale. +b PARUAES coeds sg 70 20S... 43 
Il. February, 32 
HI. March; 36 
IV. April, 39. 
V.. May, 49 
Vi. June, 65 
VII. July, 58 
Vil. Augutt, rz 
IX. September, 48 
2s October, 35 
XI. November, 22 
JX, December, 18 
* See Map B, in Plate V. 
