&c. and then coin to the Zuderzee. The western wing, 

 which is the largest, falls directly upon the isles of 

 Shetland and the Orkneys; and thither the Ditch go 

 to wait their coming. All that escape these dexterous 

 fishers, go on to Scotland, and dividing again into 

 two columns, one passes to the east of that kingdom, 

 and goes round England, detaching numerous divi- 

 sions to the coasfs of Friesland, Holland, Zealand, 

 Flanders, and France, while the other moves to the 

 westward of Scotland and Ireland. The remains of the 

 whole western wing which have escaped the nets of the 

 fishers, and the voracity of other fish and fowl, 

 having at length rallied in the channel, the column is 

 formed anew, and then issues into the ocean, from 

 which (without shewing itself again on the coast) ?t 

 regains, like the remains of the first western wing, 

 which had not travelled so far, the polar ice at the 

 approach of winter. And under the protection of 

 this, the loss is repaired, which the species had suffer- 

 ed since they left it. 



Thus does the divine wisdom supply many thousands 

 of men with food, as well as numberless other anima's, 

 and yet prevent any decay of that necessary provision 

 which is continually consumed and as constantly re- 

 cruited. *. 



The Tunnies come in equal shoals af certain seasons 

 to the coasts of Provence and Languedoc, but it is on 

 another occasion. The fish called by the French the - 

 Emperor, is the great enemy of these fish. He is in 

 summer so plentiful in those seas, that they cannot 

 escape him but by flying to the shallow waters. 



The Pilchards catched on the coast of Brittany are 

 still a stronger proof of the natural means that bring 

 fish in shoals to certain places. The people of Brit, 

 tany purchase from Norway the otfals and entrails of 

 all the large fish caught t.cre. These they cut in 

 pieces, and strew in vast quantities on the sea along 

 the coasts : this always brings thither shoals of pilch- 

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