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Mine, in allusion to the riches that nation has 

 drawn from it. 



The law has been so well observed, as it re- 

 spects the curing and packing, in that country, 

 that their reputation has given them almost the 

 complete control of foreign markets. 



The late Dr Mease, of Philadelphia, consider- 

 ed the subject of the herring fishery of such na- 

 tional interest, many years since, that he abridged 

 a pamphlet written by the Earl of Dundonald on 

 the subject, with a hope of awakening the people 

 of the United States to a realizing sense of the in-? 

 exhaustible source of wealth the ocean presented 

 in the herring fishery. 



The Dutch law obliges the fishermen to sepa- 

 rate the herring caught in one night, from those 

 taken in another. None are allowed to be ship- 

 ped after the 15th of July. No herring are to 

 be sold on any consideration, till they have re- 

 mained ten days in pickle : and the law also 

 compels the fishermen to complete the curing pro- 

 cess, within three weeks after they arrive in port, 

 and lastly, to repack them. Salted in barrels 

 four barrels of salt are to be put to every twelve of 

 fish. The law even says they shall be packed alter- 

 nately, lengthivise and crosswise ; and lastly, no 

 salt but such as actually comes from St Ubes, shall 

 be used. 



