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quantity brought into Wollenhove consisted of 5835 lasts, 

 and to Enkhuizen, of 3807 lasts. 



From Harderwyk were sent out the following quantities 

 in Netherlands pounds (2 lbs. British each) in each of the 

 following years : — 



Inland Foreign 



Consumption. Consumption. 



1855, 200,410 ... 1100 



1856, 250,564 ... 1200 



1857, ... ... 223,355 ... 1069 



From this quarter forty-one vessels were fitted out, in 

 1857, to this fishery in the Zuyder-Zee, and there are eight 

 smoking-houses to prepare the red herrings. 



The boats fitted out for the fresh- herring fishery, and 

 the quantity and values, are as follows : — 



Which fishery, although producing 6,400,000 fewer her- 

 rings than in 1856, yielded about 3000 guilders more 

 money. 



In the Eeport of the Eesults of the Journals kept by 

 forty-five Busses, published by the Meteorological Society 

 of Holland, 1848, we are told that in June and July the 

 herrings left the east side of the Shetland Islands, and 

 proceeded by two difi'erent ways towards the south. They 

 remained in the end of July principally between 56° and 

 57° north latitude, and proceeded towards the Scottish 

 coasts between 55° and 56° N. Lat. in August. In Sep- 

 tember they began to proceed in a contrary direction 



