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cured every possible way with salt and smoke, from the deli- 
cate bloater to the shriveled, smoky-brown substance of a 
smoked herring-box. Nevertheless, it has been truly stated 
that “the ancients placed among their gods many a worse 
creature than a red herring.” It is a great fish of commerce, 
and one of the indispensables to the poor in many parts of the 
world. Thus far, although the lakes of the United States 
swarm with a fresh-water herring which is not inferior to the 
best British, yet it has hitherto claimed little attention as a 
fish for exportation; but the demand for it is becoming an- 
nually greater, and the fishermen of the Western lakes are 
now beginning to study the best net and management for 
its capture. The drift-nets will probably be found the best, 
and the lake herrings—which are more delicate than those of 
salt water — will soon become an important article of com- 
merce. 
‘THE CISCO OR CISCOQUETTE. 
The cisco is a small white fish similar to the lake herring, 
but differing from it by the addition of a second filmy dorsal, 
and in its meat being more delicate, and, when scaled, trans- 
lucent as a smelt. It usually measures from six to nine 
inches in length, sometimes twelve inches, but rarely longer. 
The scales are white as polished silver except on the back, 
which is greenish-gray like the caplin. 
The cisco is known in some places, eminently by fishermen 
and fish-dealers along the great lakes, as the ciscoquette, and 
is just beginning to be regarded as a commercial fish, great 
quantities being taken with the whitefish by the fishermen of 
