ye PISH. 



memorated it in a poem of the sea and its 

 wonders. 



Both the pilchard and its entrails are very 

 valuable for bait, all kinds of fish feeding on them 

 very readily. % 



THE HERRING. 



Clupea Harengus of all naturalists. 



According to Pennant's account, "this mighty 

 army begins to put itself in motion in the spring. 

 We distinguish this vast body by that name, for 

 the word herring is derived from the German 

 ' heer' an army, to express their numbers. 



"They begin to appear off the Shetland 

 Islands in April and May.* This is the first 

 check the army meets with in its march south- 

 ward. Here it is divided into two parts, one 

 wing of those destined to visit our coasts takes 

 to the east, the other to the western shores of 

 Great Britain, and fill every bay and creek 



* Pennant, in another part of his account, says the herrings 

 continue on the Welsh coast till February (p. 447). 



