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alfo to be found, and very poffibly in Japan: their winter 
rendezvous is within the artic circle; they retire there after 
{pawning, and wherever they can meet with infe@ food. 
They are in full roe at the end of June, and in perfedion till 
the commencement of winter, when they begin to depofit 
their fpawn. 
PRESERVED HERRINGS, 
Various are the names given to them, and according as they 
are ordered: as, 
1ft. Sea-Sricxs are what are caught all the fifhing feafon, 
and but once packed. A barrel of thefe contains fix or eight 
hundred; according to law, eight barrels go to the hundred. 
A hundred of Herrings is one hundred and twenty; a laft is 
ten thoufand; and they generally reckon fourteen barrels to 
the laft. 
ad. RepackeD Herrines are Herrings repacked on {fhore. 
Seventeen barrels of Sea-Sticks make from twelve to fourteen 
barrels of, repacked Herrings. They repack them in the 
following manner: take out the Herrings, wafh them in their 
own pickle, and lay them orderly in a frefh barrel: they have 
no falt put to them; but after being clofe packed, have a {worn 
copper put over them with the pickle when the barrel is 
half 
