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rays i the perioral feventeen ; the anal fourteen : 

 the tail is much forked. 



The lateral line is not apparent, unlefs the fcales 

 are taken off : the fides are comprefled : the belly 

 fharply carinated, but the ridge quite fmooth, and 

 not in the left ferrated. 



The fcales arc large, thin, and fall off with a 

 flight touch. 



The color of the back and fides green, varied CoLeR. 

 with blue ; the belly filvery. 



The herring filliery is of great antiquity : the FIs^ERXo 

 induftrious DuUb firft engaged in it about the year 

 1 1 64: they were in poffeffion of it for feveral 

 centuries, but at length its value became fo juftly 

 to be known, that it gave rife to moft obftinate 

 and well-difputed wars between the Englijh and 

 them ; but ftill their diligence and fkill gives theni 

 a fuperiority over us in that branch of trade. 



Our great ftatlons are off the Shetland and Wef 

 ttrn IJles^ and off the coaft of Norfolk^ in which the 

 Dutch alfo (hare. Yarmouth has long been famous 

 for its herring fair*; that town is obliged, by its 

 charter, to fend to the flieriffs of Norwich one 

 hundred herrings, to be made into twenty-four pies, 

 by them to be delivered to the lord of the manor 

 of Eafi CarletoUy who is to convey them to the 



* This fair^vas regulated by an a£l, commonly called th.t 

 Statute of Herrings y in the 31ft year oi Edivard lU. 



Z 3 king 



