^48 DUTCH METHOD OF CURING HERRINGS. 



action, I think it may be inferred, from the coincidence in 

 their effects, that thefe bodies are fimilar fubftances. Probably 

 the action of the acids on the refiduum was affifted by a final} 

 portion of refin which it was combined with, and which it 

 defended from the action of the alcohol employed to dilfolve 

 the maftich. 



J am, your obedient Servant, 



R. MATTHEWS, 



March 13, 1305. 



VI, 



The Dutch Method of curing Herrings, extracled and tranjlaied 

 from the German of Kriinitz's Economical Encyclopaedia, 

 (Oeconomifche Encycfopadie), Article Hciring, by L 

 Hinckley, Efq. F. S. A. , 



(Concluded from j>. 224.) 



Dutch method JLaERRINGS, however, are equally good, wherever they 

 of catching and are t a i cer)) provided they be but caught in the proper feafon, 



*un.ng herrings. , ,, .<. . ,. , '. . . 



and well managed. As they die immediately on quitting their 

 element, falting and packing are the circumftances which 

 principally affect (heir quality. The fuperior excellence and 

 ■flavour of Dutch herrings, above thofe of all other countries, 

 arifes from the clofe attention and indefatigable induftry em- 

 ployed. Every thing, however minute, both as to feafon and 

 management, which can maintain the reputation they have 

 enjoyed for more than two hundred years, is moft punctually 

 obferved; and above thirty ordinances on the curing and ma- 

 nagement of herrings are recited by Sir William Temple, in 

 the 17th century. 



Herrings cured with Scotch fait, very quickly decay. 

 Thofe of Norway are cured in the fame manner as the Scotch, 

 but with French fait, and packed in fir or deal; in confe- 

 quence of which they are vvorfe, and lefs palatable, as they 

 leave a four tafle in the mouth, and form fpoil. In like man- 

 ner, other nations are equally carelefs in afforling the fifh, 

 and to this may be attributed the precedency which the Dutch 

 herrings have fo long maintained. The Dutch catch their, 

 tfjfh regularly and early off HUlland, from the 25th of June, 



becaufe 



