Mig^-ation of' the Herring and Mackerel. 321 



>vhose range of fishing ground is very extensive, have never, in 

 the interval alluded to, met with the Atlantic mackerel, which, 

 before they make their appearance off this station, are invari- 

 ably met with off Yarmouth and the Northforeland, this cir- 

 cumstance appears sufficiently conclusive, that these fish pro- 

 ceed north about. Whether they pass through the Pentland 

 Frith, or take a wider circuit in the course of their passage 

 hither, is a point which I must leave to my friends situated more 

 to the northward to determine. The early mackerel are fre- 

 quently accompanied by a few red mullet (the salmonet of the 

 Mediterranean) ; and whenever these nearly, if not altogether, 

 equal the mackerel in number, the circumstance is generally 

 the presage of the approach of great shoals of mackerel. 



The season for mackerel at Hastings generally terminates 

 about the end of June or the beginning of July, although many 

 have been caught in the middle and latter end of September, 

 corresponding in appearance with those which appear off this 

 place about the commencement of the spring ; and as these are 

 taken on the west side of the nets (the general direction or po- 

 sition of which has been already mentioned), it is concluded 

 they are on their return to deep water in the German Ocean, 

 leaving, however, some stragglers behind, which have been met 

 with in the Channel the whole year. 

 Hastings, Sussex, 

 Aususl 1829. 



On the Naturalization of the Cashmeer Shawl-Goat in Eng- 

 land. By C. T. Tower, Esq. of Weald Hall, Essex*. 



Several attempts have been made to introduce and to natu- 

 ralize, in the British Islands, the goat of Cashmeer, that varie- 

 ty of the common goat, or perhaps a peculiar species, the fine 

 wool of which is the material of the so-called Indian shawls. 

 These fabrics, in fineness of fibre, lightness, and warmth, are 



• From vol. xlvi. of the Transactions of the Society for the Encourage- 

 ment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. The Society voted its large 

 Gold Medal to Mr Tower for a shawl. 



