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;i month, and the other two months later, staying also about 
a month. 
Gloucester (about twenty miles oil'). — A school of very large 
Herrings is preceded by one of smaller-sized fish in April and 
May. It is thought that each of these forms part of the same 
schools that visit the Massachusetts Bay, and from their similarity 
may be classed with them. 
In tlie waters surrounding A ova .Scotia and .Newfoundland are 
to be found very large framed Herrings, coarse in flesh and rank in 
taste, long and lanky ; also a large, line, powerful lish witli 
abundance of fat similar in appearance to those frequenting the 
Iceland and Lolloden waters. 
Enclosed Waters. — In the river .Niagara (jredi water) are to be 
found Herrings about 14 in. to id in. long, line thick shoulders 
and back, with which you may tickle your palate at the restaurants 
in Toronto, where they are served fresh in portions. 
Coming to this side of the Atlantic, in the 1’ollen, an inland 
sheet of water but slightly salt, access to which is gained through 
the narrow, short fjord, almost dry when the tide is out, called 
Borgefjord, from the Polar !Soa, lives a very distinct tribe of 
Herrings, large line lisli ; they are said never to leave those waters, 
but propagate their species there ; Herrings of all growths aie found 
amongst them. 
Iceland and Lolloden Isles. — In the waters washing theso 
shores, early in the month of May, swims a large, powerful 
Herring, coarse of llesh, with a strong smell, a striking contrast 
to our Yarmouth lish. They spawn on the Lolloden coast the 
latter part of May, but the Iceland ones do so a little earlier. 
In the \\ liite iSea (Bay of ISoraka) exists a tribe of Herrings 
under its ice-covered waters, which are only comeatable by the 
fishermen making holes in the ice through which they let down 
their nets to capture these White Seaites. 
In the fjords of Sweden and Denmark, large masses of Herrings 
congregate, probably in search of food and quietude from their 
enemies during their spawning time. They are of a very mixed 
kind, from small Herrings of about 5 inches to IT inches long. 
Baltic and Kattegat. — These waters are visited by Herring 
at regular periods, distinctive in character ; whilst oil the coast 
of Trance, as has been noted by Cuvier and Valenciennes, there 
