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Migration of Fishes. 
The current opinion as to the migrations of the her¬ 
ring, has been given under the article Clui>ea, vol. iv. 
p. 686, 7. But the reality of thefe migrations begins, at 
prefent, to be called in queftion: and it is rather i'up- 
pofed that the herring, like the mackerel, is, in reality, 
at no very great diftance, during the winter-months, from 
the (hores which it moft frequents at the commencement 
of the fpawning-feafon ; inhabiting in winter the deep re¬ 
cedes of the oce n, or plunging itfelf beneath the foft 
mud at the bottom: but at the vernal feafon it begins 
to quit the deeper parts, and approach the lhallows, in 
order to depofit its fpawn in proper fituations; and this 
is thought a fufiicient explanation of the glittering my¬ 
riads which, at particular feafons, illuminate the furface 
of the ocean for the length and breadth of feveral miles 
at once. 
The reafons given by Dr. Bloch againft a belief in their 
migrations, are chiefly thefe: It is impoflible that they 
Ihould traverfe a fpace of lo many thousands of miles in 16 
Ihort a time. According to the obfervations of Giefsler, 
the falmon, even in frefli water, fwims only at the rate of 
one mile in twenty-four hours; and, when the fun fliines, 
not more than half as fall. The lalmon-trout, when the 
wind is favourable, lwims up the moft rapid rivers at the 
rate of three miles in twenty-four hours ; but up gentle 
ftreams, it makes in the fame time only half the progrels. 
Herrings, having falt-water conftantly to ftruggle with, 
would proceed at a much flower rate. 
In one or other part of Europe, herrings may, all the 
year, be found : on the coaft of Swedifli Pomerania, from 
January to March; in the Baltic Sea, and many other 
places, from March to November; about Gothland, and 
aifo on the coafts of France, from Odtober to December. 
The lilhermen of Scarborough in England fcarcely ever 
throw a net, in any feafon of the year, without finding a 
herring among their fifli. If the herring, as fome allege, 
fly fouthward to efcape the eager jaws of the whale, why 
does it proceed 16 many hundred miles beyond the leas, 
which this, its enemy, inhabits?, and why, on the ap¬ 
proach of winter, Ihould it return to the Ardlic regions 
to encounter again an equal peril ? If want of provifion 
obliges the herrings to fend out colonies, why Ihould this 
want occur periodically, and always at the fame feafon ? 
On examining nature attentively, all thefe difficulties va- 
nifli. Herrings, like other filh, quit the deep waters, tjieir 
ulual abode, in order to depofit the fpawn in places more 
fecure; and, having 16 done, feek again their cuftomary 
haunts. Initindt or inclination, not the fear of the whale, 
occafions their change of refidence. Bloch, vol. i. Woods's 
IJle of Man , p. 7 3-6. 
MI'GRATORY, adj. Difpofed to remove from one 
place to another; changing refidence.—This purpofe is 
iometimes carried on by a fort of migratory inflindl; fome- 
times by the fpirit of conqueft; at one time avarice drives 
men from their homes, at another they are adluated by a 
thirft of knowledge. Burke. 
MIGREE'VO, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Novgorod: thirty-fix miles fouth of Tcherepovetz. 
Ml'GROD, or Mich'elreed, a town of Germany, in 
the county of Wertheim: four miles north of Wertheim. 
MI'GRON, [Heb. fear.] The name of a place. Ifai. x. 28. 
MI'GRON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Charente : ten miles north-eaft of Saintes. 
MIGU 7 , a town of Arabia, in the province of Oman: 
140 miles fouth-weft ofjulfar. 
MIGUEL' ESTEVAV, a town of Spain, in New Caf- 
tile : forty miles’fouth of Huete. 
MIGUEL' TUR'RIA, a town of Spain, in New Caf- 
tile : four miles fouth-eaft of Civdad Real. 
MIGUEL' (St.) See Michael, p. 320 of this volume. 
MIGUEL' (St.) See Madeira, Vol. xiv. p. 69. 
MIGUEL' (St.) a town of Mexico, in the province of 
Guatimala: fifty miles eaft of Cuzcatlan.—A town of 
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South America, in the kingdom of Grenada: eighty-five 
miles eaft of Santa Fe de Bogota.—A town of Spain, in 
the province of Seville, between the rivers Guadiana and 
Odier, near the coaft of the Atlantic.—A town of South 
America, in Popayan: ninety miles eaft-louth-eaft of 
Pafto.—A town of Paraguay: 360 miles eaft of Aflump- 
tion.—A town of Mexico, in the province of Nicaragua, 
on the north-weft coaft of Amapalla-bay: 100 miles fouth- 
eaft of Leon. Lat. 13. 35. N. Ion. 88. 56. W.—A town of 
Mexico, in the province of Mechoacan: eighty miles 
north of Mechoacan, Lat. 21. 20. N. Ion. 10a. 26. W.—A 
town of South America, in the province of Chiquitos.— 
A town of South America, in the province of Quito : 
fifty miles fouth-weft of Quito.—A town of South Ame¬ 
rica, in the audience of Quito : fifteen miles north-well 
of St. Jolef de Huales.—A million of Spanifh monks in 
New Albion, near the coaft of the Pacific Ocean. Lat. 
31.58. N. Ion. 24.3. 4.2. E.—A fmall ifland in the North 
Pacific Ocean, called alfo St. Bernardo, the moft wefterly 
of the range which forms the weliern boundary of the 
canal of St. Barbara. Lat. 34. N. Ion. 240. 3. E.—A river 
of Brafil, which runs into the Atlantic in lat. 10. 8. S.— 
A town of Brafil, in the government of St. Paul: fifteen 
miles eaft of St. Paul.—A town of Congo, and capital of 
the province of Ovando: 150 miles fouth-louth-eaft of 
St. Salvador. Lat. 7. 45. S.—A town of Mexico, in the pro¬ 
vince of Culiacan, on the Ciguatlan : thirty miles fouth- 
eaft of Culiacan. Lat. 24. 6. N. Ion. 107. 52. W.—A town, 
of New Mexico, in the province of Cinaloa : feventy miles 
weft-north-weft of Cinaloa.—A town of New Mexico: 
fixty miles fouth of Santa Fe. 
MIGUEL' ARCHAN'GEL (St.) an ifland in the Pa¬ 
cific Ocean, difeovered by Quiros in the year 1606. 
MIGUEL' BAY' (St.) a bay on the eaft coaft of the 
illand of Lu^on. Lat. 14. 12. N. Ion. 123. 40. E. 
MIGUEL' D’lBAR'RA (St.) a jurifdidtion of South 
America, in the government of New Grenada, and au¬ 
dience of Quito. The temperature of the air is different 
in all the villages of this jurifdidlion, but generally warm, 
on account of their low fituations. Molt of the farms 
have plantations of lugar-canes, and mills for extradling 
the juice, of which they make large quantities of white 
fugar. Some farms are planted with fruits common in 
a hot climate ; and in others they only cultivate cotton, 
which is obtained in the greateft perfedlion. In thofe 
farms that are fituated in a iefs hot part of this juriidic- 
tion are fown maize, wheat, and barley. Here are alfo 
large multitudes of goats, but not many Iheep. The In¬ 
dians weave a confiderable quantity of cloth and cotton. 
This jurifdidlion has feveral mines of fait, which fupply 
the countries that lie to the north of it. Near a village, 
called Mira, there is a great number of wild affes. 
MIGUEL' D’lBAR'RA (St.) a town of South Ame¬ 
rica, and capital of the above jurifdidlion, containing 
about 10,000 inhabitants. The houfes are built of ftone, 
and tiled. The fuburbs are inhabited by Indians, in mean 
cottages. The parifli-church is a large, elegant, and well- 
ornamented, building. Here are convents of Francifcans, 
Dominicans, and Fathers of Mercy, a college, and a nun¬ 
nery of the order of the Conception. It is forty-five miles 
north-north-eaft of Quito. Lat. o. 25. N. Ion. 77. 40. W. 
MIGUEL' DE PIU'RA (St.) See Piura. 
MIGUEL' DE RIBE'RA (St.) a town of Peru, in the 
diocefe of Arequipa: fixty-two miles weil-fouth-weft of 
Arequipa. 
MIGUEL' DE TUCUMAN' (St.) a town of South 
America, in the province of Tucuman; the fee of a 
bifliop, containing feveral monafteries. Its fituation is 
elevated and agreeable, and in its vicinity are fertile 
fields, and feveral filver-mines : lome mules are bred; but 
the chief traffic is in a kind of cars,1 or covered waggons, 
which pafs to Buenos Ayres and Jujuy, and which the 
inhabitants are enabled to build by their abundance of 
wood. It is 200 miles eaft of Copiapo. Lat. 27. 25. S. 
on.66. 30. W. 
