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continued there until the beginning of November ; hence 

 the herring went " to the southward, being followed with 

 small fisher boats, but dangerous for the Busses to follow 

 them." Near the Isle of Man was " a great appearance of 

 herrings " ; this, in the opinion of the writer, afforded a 

 fishing " most proper for those of Leverpool, but unprofit- 

 able for Busses to be sent from other farre remote parts." 



The various kinds of herring are described thus by Smith. 

 The first variety he calls " Seastick," of which " seventeen 

 Barrels made twelve Repacked Barrels " ; " the manner 

 is to take out the herring, washing them in their owne 

 pickle, and so lay them orderly in a fresh barrel, which have 

 no salt put to them, but trodden down as close as may be, 

 and so headed up." The second class was summer herring, 

 " Full and Shotten herring " ; the third, " Crux Herring " 

 (the 14th of September being Exaltio Crucis). These were 

 all " full herring," made " with salt upon salt," and carefully 

 sorted out. " Corved Herrings," used to make red herrings, 

 were those taken about Yarmouth, " provided that thej'' 

 can be taken on shore two or three dayes after they be taken, 

 otherwise they must be pickled." 



There follows his quaint recipe for the pickle, " For 

 making of the Pickle, the observation is, that it must be 

 so strong as that a herring will swim in it, and then it doth 

 so pine and overcome the nature of the herring, that it makes 

 it stifie and preserves it, otherwise, if the pickle bee weaker 

 than the nature of the herring, it will overcome the strength 

 of the pickle, and so the herring will decay." 



Though the ships of the Association participated, to a 

 certain extent, in this east coast fishing, the promoters of the 

 company clung to their project of developing the fishing 

 in the Western Isles, probably because they felt that in 

 this region there would be least interference on the part of 

 the omnipresent Dutchman. The scheme, however, had 

 scarcely been launched before there were complaints from the 



