FISHERY. i$ 



The St. James's herrings undergo a fecond pack- 

 ing, are reduced from fourteen barrels to twelve* 

 then marked by the overfeers ; thefe are fent off 

 in a commercial way. 



The take of St. Bartholomew, the 28th of 

 Auguft, are marked with the arms of the city, and 

 commonly fent to Cologne in Germany. The 

 take of the I4th of September are Hkewife marked 

 with the arms of the city, and fent generally to 

 Rouen in Normandy ; they are not marked, until 

 they have remained in the ririt pickle eight or ten 

 days. Laftly, they muil have remained in fait 

 ten days, before they can be fold. No Scotch, or 

 other foreign herrings can be worked, cured, and 

 packed, as if they were Dutch : they may be 

 fimply packed up in barrels without any {lamp. 

 The precaution on this head iscarried fo far, that 

 no empty barrels of ours, marked as above, can 

 be exported to any other country. This extract 

 of regulations concerning the important commerce 

 of the herring Sftiery, poiTeiTed as well by the 

 States General as by the ftat.es of the province of 

 Holland, is drawn from the Great Placart book, 

 from the treaty with the city of Hamburgh, from 

 the book of Handvoeflen, all which the reader 

 muft examine, if he requires a more exaft know- 

 ledge of the matter. 



We have faid above, that the infpeHon of the 

 curing, packing, &c. is entrufled to overfeers, 

 who are appointed by government, and take up 



their 



