Class IV. PILCHARD HERRING. 455 



" that Fowi/ has exported yearly 1732 hogs- 

 " heads; Falmouth, 14631 hogsheads and two- 

 " thirds; Penzance and Mount' s-Bay, 12149 

 " hogsheads and one-third; St. Ives, 1282 

 " hogsheads : in all amounting to 29795 hogs- 

 " heads. Every hogshead for ten years last 

 " past, together with the bounty allowed for 

 " each hogshead exported, and the oil made 

 " out of each hogshead, has amounted, one year 

 " with another at an average, to the price of 

 " one pound thirteen shillings and three- pence; 

 " so that the cash paid for pilchards exported 

 " has, at a medium, annually amounted to the 

 " sum of forty-nine thousand five hundred and 

 " thirty-two pounds ten shillings." 



The number taken at one shooting out of the 

 nets, is amazingly great. Dr. Borlase assured 

 me, that on the 5th of October, \767, there 

 were at one time inclosed in St. Ives's Bay 7000 

 hogsheads, each hogshead containing 35000 fish, 

 in all 245,000,000. 



This fish has a general likeness to the her- Descrip- 

 ring, but differs in some particulars very essen- 

 tially ; we therefore describe it comparatively 

 with the other, having one of each species before 

 us, both of them of the same length, viz. nine 

 inches and an half. 



TION. 



