7.3. HERRINGS, >c. A STR AC AN M E R C H ANTS. 



or the beginning of Jtigujl, but have gradually altered their feafon, and of late are 

 fddom feen before the beginning of November ; neither are they fo tat as when 

 they appeared early. In 178 1, 136,649 barrels of falted herrings were exported 

 to different parts of the Baltic and eaft fea, the Madeira., and Wejl Indias, and 

 Frmicc, and the Mediterranean ; befides 14,542 barrels of herring oil : but the 

 oil is of very inferior quality to that of whale or liver oil. Formerly the Swedes, 

 fent great quantities of herrings to Cork^ from whence they were refhipped to the 

 TVeJi Indias*. This part of the trade has entirely ceafed. Poffibly thefe new 

 fiflieries may have operated with other caufes, to leffen thofe of Great Britain ; 

 but I am informed that thefe capricious fifh begin already to appear in the Baltic 

 in far lefs quantities than ufual. 



Lxi. ~ But Szveden exceeds us in the rtumber of frefh water liflies. Befides 



the lejfer, and pride lampries, the eel, the barhot, bullhead, -perch, ruffe, 

 three-fpined and ten-fpined Jiickleback, the loche, or cobitis tania, lately 

 difcovered in the Trent; the trout, char, grayling, gwiniad, pike, carp, tench, 

 bream, crucian, ■ riid, roach, graining, cyprinus dobula (Lin. ^"2.2), and bleak, 

 which the reader may find in the Britijh Zoology ; it has Xht Jlerlet, or acipenfer 

 ruthenus, tranfported from the Wolga by Frederic I. blennius raninus, or ahlkujfa, 

 perca lucioperca or gioes, cobitis foJftUs, filurus glanis or mahl, the greateft of frefh 

 water filhes. Salmo tvimba, S. albula or fuckloeja, cyprinus afpius, or afp, C, 

 idus, or id. C.ballerus, or hlicka, C, grijlagine, ox Jiaem, C, wimba, C, idbarus, 

 C. farenus, or faren, C. cultratus, or Jkierknif, C. biorkna, or bicorka, and the 

 C. aphya, or 7yiud, are all inhabitants of the Swedijh lakes and rj^vers, and de- 

 fcribed in the Fauna Suecica, and many of them figured in the beautiful hiflory of 

 fifhes by Mr. Bloch. Sweden wants our famlet, barbel, gudgeon, chub, graining, 

 and minnow. The carp is a naturalized fifh, and is befides frequently brought 

 there alive out of Germany. 



l,xii. Since the beginning of the prefent century, about an hundred and fifty or two 



hundred Indian merchants, from the province of Multan, refide at /IJlracan, and 

 carry on a great trade in pretious ffones ; they live in a large ftone caravan- 

 ferni. As they die away, or incline to return home, a fupply is fent from 

 India by their chief, felefled from among their relations. As they have no fe- 

 males from their country, they keep, during their refidence at AJlracan, Tartarian 

 women, but the contract is only during that time. They are a fine race of men, 

 ^nd are highly efteemed for the integrity of their dealings. 



^ * Third Report of the Committee on the Britijh Fiiheries, 



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