336 HERRING, Class IV. 



Dod^y of a few being once taken in the Bay of 

 Tangier y are never found more foutherly. 



They are met with in vaft fnoals on the coaft of 

 America^ as low as Carolina, In Chefapeak Bay is 

 an annual inundation of thofe lifli, which cover 

 the fhores in fuch quantities as to become a nu- 

 fance-}-. We find them again in the feas of 

 Kamtzchatka^ and poilibly they reach Japan \ for 

 K^mpfer mentions, in his account of the fifh of 

 that country, feme that are congenerous. 



The great winter rendezvous of the herring is 

 within the ArBic circle : there they continue for 

 many months in order to recruit themfelves after 

 the fatigue of fpawning, the feas within that fpace 

 fwarming with infedt food, in a degree far greater 

 than in our warmer latitudes. 

 MiGRA- This mighty army begins to put itfelf in motion 



in the fpring ; we diftinguifh this vaft body by 

 that name, for the word herring is derived from 

 the G^nnan, Heer, an army, to exprefs their num- 

 bers. 



They begin to appear off the Shetland ifles in 

 April and May ; thefe are only forerunners of the 

 grand fhoal which comes in June, and their appear- 

 ance is marked by certain figns by the numbers of 

 birds, fuch as gannets, and others which follow 

 to prey on them : but when the main body ap- 

 proaches, its breadth and its depth is fuch as to 



* Natural Hij?. of the Herring, /. 27. 



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