HERRING FISHERY. 5! 



which is a confiderable advantages But, as there 

 is no police to regulate the package of them, as 

 there is in Holland, and in feveral ports of France, 

 bad herrings are often found in the Yarmouth 

 barrels intermixed with the good ones. 



Offome imperfections peculiar to Red Herrings. 



Such herrings, as have ftuck together when 

 drying, lofe their fkin in the feparatlng of them, 

 and are therefore unmerchantable. Thofe, that 

 have got too much fire, or, what is worfe, are 

 burnt, are likewife fet apart with the refufe. 



Although it is allowed to cure herrings of three 

 nights taking, yet it would be proper to put thofe 

 of one, two, and three nights in feparate barrels, 

 as the herrings of one night are infinitely better 

 than the others, and thofe of three nights are of 

 a very inferior quality. As to the herrings of 

 four nights, it is not allowed to fell them at all, 

 There fhould be alfo a prohibition againft faking 

 with old brine, of any fort whatfoever, thofe her- 

 rings, that are to be cured in this manner. 



Of a fort of half-cured Herrings , called Bourn's, 

 (fuelled,} Craquelots, or Appetits. 



Thefe herrings do not keep long, an$ are 



ufually made of fhotten herrings, and of thofe of 



feveral nights, which are not fit to be cured in the 



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