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The HERRING. 
HareEncus, in I&hyology, a fpecies of the Clopea. Its - 
Harengi forms are thefe: its length is generally feven or 
eight inches, though it fometimes grows to a foot; its head is 
flatted, and its mouth placed upwards: it has a green back and 
fides mingled with blue, and a belly of a filver caft; its feales 
are large and round. Itis not fpotted at all, and its belly is 
carinated; the ridge is quite {mooth, and not at all ferrated; 
its fide lines are fmall, and fcarce diftinguifhable; the lower 
jaw is ftronger and more prominent than the upper; its gills 
are four innumber, as in other fifhes; their fibres very long, 
and open remarkably wide; fo that this fifh dies almoft as 
foon as taken out of the water: it has one fin on its back, 
which confifts of about feventeen rays, and is between the 
head and the tail; the two ventral fins have nine rays, the 
~ pectoral feventeen, and the anal fourteen ; the tail is forked. 
The name Herring, takes its derivation from the German 
Heer, an army, which expreffes their number when they 
migrate our feas. Herrings are found in vaft quantities from 
the higheft northern latitudes as low as the northern coaft in 
France; on the coaft of America large fhoals of them are to 
be met with as low as Carolina. In Kamtfchatka they are 
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