294 S PAR Soe Clafs IV. 
His. «Lhe: Spee Raa ae 
Spratti. Wil. Ib, 221. Raii Clopea Sprattus. Cl. pinna 
Syn. pif. 105. dorfali radiis tredecim. Liz. 
Clupea quadriuncialis, maxilla fifi. 523. 
inferiore longiore, ventre a- Hwufsbuk. Faun. fuec. No. 
catifimo. Aried. fynon. 17+ 358- 
R. Willoughby and Mr. Ray were of opinion, 
that thefe fith were the fry of the herring : we 
are induced to diffent from them, not only becaufe on 
comparing a fprat and young herring of equal fize, 
we difcovered fome {pecific differences, but likewife 
for another reafon: the former -vifits our coafts, and 
continue with us in fhoals innumerable, when the 
others in general have retired to the great northern 
deeps. 
They come into the'river Thames, below bridge, 
the beginning of November, and leave it in March, 
and are, during their feafon, a great relief to the 
poor of the capital. 
At Gravefend, and at Yarmouth, they are cured 
like red herrings ; they are fometimes pickled, and 
are little inferior in flavor to the Anchovy, but the 
bones will not diffolve like thofe of the latter. Mir. 
Forfter tells me, that in the Baltic they preferve them 
in the fame manner, and call them Breitling, i. e. the 
little deep fifh, as being deeper than the Stromling, 
or Baltic herring. 
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