DUTCH HERRING FISHERY. 



confiderably injured. To prevent this abufe, it 

 would be proper to prohibit all freih herrings from 

 being brought into any loch, bay, or port, for fale 

 to the biifles, then- at anchor in fuch loch, bay, of 

 port -, and alfo to enact, that no herrings fhall be fold 

 to the bufles except thofe taken in company with the 

 purchafers, and within twelve hours after the capture, 

 under certain penalties. 



' 



Of the Herring Fijheries by Foreigners, en the Shores 

 of Britain and the Continent-, particularly the 

 with their Method of curing and pack* 



The coafts of Norway, Sweden, Holftein, Ger- 

 many, Britain, ' arid Ireland, are, or have been, the 

 principal feats of the herring fiiheries on this fide the 

 Atlantic. Sometimes, however, the herrings, after 

 having frequented certain coafts for many feafons, 

 and even ages, have capricioufly abandoned thofe 

 fhores, feemingly never to return. Antiently, the 

 coaft of Norway and Sweden abounded fo plentifully 

 in herrings, that vefTels. reforted thither, from all the 

 northern parts of the European continent, to the 

 amount of fome thoufands. Leaving that northern 

 coaft, the herrings fell down upon Holftein,, and the 

 German fhore, and became a' valuable prey to the 

 Hanfe towns, who thereby acquired a degree of opu- 

 lence, power, and . fplendour, till then unknown in 

 the north. 



About the beginning of the fixteenth century, the 

 herrings alfo forfook the coafts of Germany and Hol- 

 ftein, as appears by the writings of Camden, Raleigh, 

 Monfon, and other Britifh as v/ell as foreign hifto- 

 rians ; and it was during the fubfequent period, that 

 the induftrions Dutch directed their attention to the 



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