HERRING FISHERY. J r 



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North and at Yarmouth ; for they do not make 

 red herrings, but of fuch as are caught near their 

 own coafts, and which have not been fold frefn. 



Of the Uten/ils, that are itfed in making Red 

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There are large tubs, like thofe which are ufed 

 in the dreffing of white herrings. There are, alfo, 

 feveral forts of ballets, fome of which ferve for 

 the herrings to drip in, and fome for other pur- 

 pofes, befides a quantity of fwitches, iliarp at 

 one end, barrels, &c. 



Of the Stoves^ or Drying Places. 



There are ftoves of different dimenfions. Some 

 of them are in the lower part of the houfes, others 

 in the upper part. Some of them are fmall fepa- 

 rate houfes covered with tiles, which are placed fo 

 as to let out the fmoke. I ihall defcribe one of the 

 largeft of them. It is divided into three parts, by 

 two rows of a fort of ladders, raifed about fix 

 feet above the ground, and which reach up to the 

 roof. As the herrings are about ten inches long, 

 the laths, which form as it were the fteps of the 

 ladders, are placed at the diftance of eleven 

 inches from each other, fo as to leave an inch 

 between the tails of one row and the heads of 

 another. On thofe laths or fteps are placed the 



fwitches 



