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fifhes are taken out of the nets and put into the warbacks 
which ftand on the fide of the veffel, one fills the gipper’s. 
bafkets. The gippers, after having cut their throats and 
taken out their guts, proceed to fort them. When the gipped. 
are put into the bafket, one man takes it to the rowerback, 
wherein there is falt; one ftirs them about in the fait, whilft 
another takes them from him, and carries them in bafkets to 
the packers. Each barrel is packed by four men, who lay 
the Herrings one by one in a very even manner; which barrel 
being full; another man takes it from them. The barrel 
is ufually left to ftand open for a day or two, to diffolve the 
falt; afterwards it is filled up, and the barrel is headed: 
Obferve, that the pickle be ftrong enough to fuftain the fifh; 
etherwife they will decay in ite 
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