Name, 
Place. 
284 iE R R IN G. Claf Iv; 
Genus XL. Eight branchioftegous rays. 
The belly extremely fharp, and often 
ferrated. HERRING. 
Doo Dhe®s BL Es ROR aN me? 
Aringha ex cimbricis littoribus. Clupea Harengus. Cl. im- 
Fovius. 143. maculata, maxilla inferiore 
Hareng, efpece de Chalcis,  longiore. Lin. fpf. 522. 
Belon. 169. Gronv. Zooph. No. 348. 
ait Rondel. 222. Gefner §ill. Faun. Juec. No. 357. % 
Uc. 4106 . ar 
Heringk. Schonevelde. 37. Stomming. Fain, fice Na. 
Herring. Wil. Icth. 219. Raii 357: p. j 
Syn. pile. 103. Stromling*. Wulf. Boru/s. No. 
Clupea maxilla inferiore longi- 50. 
Ore maculis carens. -Arted. 
Ani 14. « B. 
HE herring was unknown to the antients, 
notwithftanding the words yarns and paimc, 
are by tranflators rendered Halec **. ‘The charac- 
ters given of thofe fifh are common to fuch num- 
bers of different fpecies, as render it impoffible to 
fay which they intended. 
Herrings are found from the higheft northern lati- 
tudes yet known, as low as the northern coafts of 
France, and excepting one inftance brought by 
Ded+, of a few being once taken in the Bay. of . 
Tangier, are never found more foutherly. 
* The herring of the Baltic, in all refpedts is like ours, but 
{maller. 
** Which word, in {pite of all Jexicographers, never fignified 
any thing but the garum or pickle. | Vide p. 221. 
t Natural Hift. of the Herring, p.27. 
They 
