are afterwards progressively taken to be 

 hung in the smoke-house, or the chimney- 

 corner, for a few days before they are used. 

 The herring-fishery lasts only about 

 fourteen days, at the time when they come 

 to spawn, at the latter end of April and 

 May: and they are so numerous at that 

 time, at the Potowmac and Susquehanna, 

 which are the chief rivers for herrings and 

 shads, that while I was dining with 

 Colonel Lyles, of Broad- Creek, near Alex- 

 andria, at his fish-house, where they were 

 fishing with their nets, or seine, they 

 took about ten thousand at a draught. I 

 thought that a prodigious quantity : but he 

 told me, that, the season before, he took 

 one hundred and fifty thousand at a draught, 

 and that he covered twenty acres of land 

 with herrings the year before. There are 

 great numbers of waggons from many 

 distant parts, to buy the herrings and shads. 

 The price of herrings is from seven shillings 

 and six pence to eleven shillings per thou- 

 sand, and of shads thirty shillings per thou- 



