Dennis de 
Coetlogon, 
1745. 
First salting 
herring. 
Comparison of 
quality her- 
ring. 
First fishing 
herrings. 
76 ON. THE PLACE, OF FISH _IN 
DE COETLOGON (DENNIS). 
Vol. I. ‘ Universal History of Arts and Sciences, 
Fishing. 
Salting herring was not discovered until 1416, 
though some date it from 1397. Willoughby, in his 
‘History of Fishes,’ observes that Will Buckelty or 
Baccbalen, a native of Bier-ulict, rendered his name 
immortal by the discovery of the secret of curing 
and pickling herring. He adds that the Emperor 
Charles V. coming into the low countries made a 
journey to the Isle of Bier-ulict with the Queen of 
Hungary, on purpose to see the tomb of this first 
Barreleer of herrings. 
The Dutch are of first quality. 
The Irish next in value after the Holland, prin- 
cipally those of Dublin, which are scarce inferior to 
those of the best Rotterdam or Enkuysen. The 
Scotch are not so well prepared, salted, etc., as the 
Dutch. It is not doubted that if the Scotch were as 
careful as their neighbours, their herring would be the 
best in the world. 
The Hollanders were the first to begin herring 
fishing (they are the most industrious people in the 
world to acquire wealth). Their first regular fishing 
is fixed to the year 1163. They begin 24 June, and 
employ 10,000 vessels therein, called Busses; they 
carry from forty-five to sixty tuns, and two or three 
small cannon. They are not allowed out of port 
without convoy, unless there be enough of them 
together to make eighteen or twenty pieces of 
cannon. 
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