I HERRING FISHJERY. 



Many birds of paffage, fuch as the woodcock, 

 wild goofe, &c. do the fame. In faft, the herrings 

 multiply more on the route than they do before it ; 

 we know that many kinds of fiih leave the fea, 

 and feek the rivers to depofit their fpawn ; fo 

 that one very probable caufe of the emigration, is 

 the inilinfi: of emigration, the fecond the plenty of 

 food, which the quickening influence of fpring 

 prepares, by the fwarms of infefts and flies. The 

 king, or leader of herrings, is much larger than 

 the common, being two feet long ; fifhers think it 

 criminal to deftroy it ; the whole column follows 

 and obferves his motions. In a {trait they con- 

 traft, in an open fea they expand their order of 

 march with admirable dexterity, without ilacken- 

 ing their pace. They live on fmall fifties, and young 

 crabs, as appears from their jaws being furnifhed 

 with teeth : L&wenhoeck found in the ftomach of a 

 herring, the indigefted remains of a little fifli. 



To form-fome conception of the innumerable 

 multitude of herrings, that fill the feas, extending 

 more than the breadth of England and Ireland toge- 

 ther, and in order to give a clear inflght into this 

 profitable branch of trade, we fliall ift, treat of 

 the fliips and implements ufed in the fifliery. 2dly, 

 Of the time and manner of taking them. 3dly, Of 

 the regulations and right of carrying on the fifliery, 

 *he gutting, faking, packing, &c. 4thly, Of the dif- 

 ferent forts and appellations of herrings, which 



make 



