t m ftERRING FISHERY. 



\vhcre it ftretches along the coaft, until it joins the 

 divifion (through the Belt,) which entered ' the 

 Baltick. They feparate again, to cover the coafts 

 of Holftein, the Texel, the Zuiderzee, &c. 



The wefterly column, or right wing, which 

 is alfo the greater, goes on {trait forward towards 

 the Orcades, (where the Dutch fifhers impatiently 

 lie in wait for them) and from thence to Scot- 

 land, where they again feparate, one wing fleering 

 by the coaft of Holland, England, and France, 

 the other taking the route of Ireland. After 

 patting all thefe iflands, they again meet, and 

 form into a column, which {tret dies along the At- 

 lahtic ocean and difappears. But what juftly 

 challenges our admiration, is, that after feparating 

 into fo many different branches, they know how 

 to rally their fcattered fquadrons, and find the 

 way back to their native abode. The time of 

 meeting, and the place of rendezvous, are fettled, 

 fo that after the general retreat not one ftraggler 

 is to be met within thefe feas. 



How regular foever the period of yearly emi- 

 gration appears, it is not free from anomalies. It 

 may appear furprizing, that thefe animals, who 

 are fecured from the perfecution of their enemies, 

 in. the unfathomable depths of the Northern 

 ocean, by an impregnable rampart of ice, fliould 

 forfake their -fafe retreat yearly, in myriads, ex- 



pofed 



