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continued there until the beginning of November; hence 
the herring went “to the southward, being followed with 
small fisher boats, but dangerous for the Busses to follow 
them.” Near the Isle of Man was “a great appearance of 
herrings’; this, in the opinion of the writer, afforded a 
fishing “‘ most proper for those of Leverpool, but unprofit- 
able for Busses to be sent from other farre remote parts.” 
The various kinds of herring are described thus by Smith. 
The first variety he calls “‘ Seastick,’’ of which “ seventeen 
Barrels made twelve Repacked Barrels”; “the manner 
is to take out the herring, washing them in their owne 
pickle, and so lay them orderly in a fresh barrel, which have 
no salt put to them, but trodden down as close as may be, 
and so headed up.” The second class was summer herring, 
“Full and Shotten herring”; the third, “ Crux Herring ” 
(the 14th of September being Exaltio Crucis). These were 
all ‘ full herring,” made “ with salt upon salt,” and carefully 
sorted out. ‘‘ Corved Herrings,”’ used to make red herrings, 
were those taken about Yarmouth, “ provided that they 
an be taken on shore two or three dayes after they be taken, 
otherwise they must be pickled.” 
There follows his quaint recipe for the pickle, “‘ For 
making of the Pickle, the observation is, that it must be 
so strong as that a herring will swim in it, and then it doth 
so pine and overcome the nature of the herring, that it makes 
it stiffe and preserves it, otherwise, if the pickle bee weaker 
than the nature of the herring, it will overcome the strength 
of the pickle, and so the herring will decay.” 
Though the ships of the Association participated, to a 
certain extent, in this east coast fishing, the promoters of the 
company clung to their project of developing the fishing 
in the Western Isles, probably because they felt that in 
this region there would be least interference on the part of 
the omnipresent Dutchman. The scheme, however, had 
scarcely been launched before there were complaints from the 
