$4 ® :N A TSJ R A L > HIS T 0 R Y oi MO R W 4 VWhen
the Surgfne* is prqtty far Rdyapced,jjj OKg towards - the
Autumn, Rppther fort, called Summer Herrings, ate qljafcd pp
the {hope hy-fc&eStfttgeQtis *ad fmall rsH^fe
and are divided into two forts, one of which- is called Bpnde-
£3ods, or peaftot? goods; the tothers? whioh are large s&d fet,
we reckon merchants goods, and are cor’d,;for
When thefe Hft .are dheiftly pickled down,)^ id ppfcikegfi a^wtelfo
day firft, which fometimes happens on- account. >ofgthe .,great
numbers that are taken, and then put up in oaken barrels, for fir
gives them a tafte,) they are :as good in every, refpeflt as, the
Dutch, which are fold by, the name o f .Flflmftfo Heffoags-.j; Jjf
thefe, notwithftanding the name, are caught on the qoaft. of
Scotland, juft opppfite to us, and are, without dpuht, ,thp)fame
breed. In the manor of. Noftdland they eatch thefe fot bumfo#?
Herrings at Michaelmas, and, after the Dutch! mannqrds in the
night, with ,a kind pf drag-qet^wfeich tb®yi icfflrytJ^etFi|at two
boats, and row genfly.along,_,ahopt Jjjp
and in the water that pupis • between ? jibe gf§§i iflands and <$gs>
Many hundred boat$are employed there ; and when the Herrings
they take there ate inftantly, pickled fofopa as.they M®, take®
ovt of the nqt, they are inferior tp for |at and fla-vaur *.
| f We were to ufo thpfe 4 iRg-ne*s here in- the .dipcefe >of Bergen,,
(which fome .people (pem inclinable i-to, dp); ft; -would, without
doubt, he very advantageous: we foould get a great, number
of Herrings that ntherwife go away, :-partj^larly in'! thole years
when the Summer Herrings onlyfiwim about the coaft,ancl arq
too Chy to com® near it. Xfeh.happened the ’Yer^rf#; Summer
when great fihoab were £pqn, ,aijid went; away .unm°lefted;. Ouf
fiftiermen itbfok it more adsyifeable to ftay f§| the Fifh •go into
fqme narrow creqk, where they'can but barely turn j they watoh
this opportunity, and thqn ftiut-up a whole fhoal, or at leaft-a
great part of h, in this creek, and there: ifeftp*etheio pirfenerj
f il l they pan take them by degrees, 4nd fo pipkie them down ;
hut the hift that are taken «re generally emaciated and fpoiled-.
It is the beft way tp keep thefe Hearings (hut ,up ip.^hp qreek for
a day tor two before they are caught, • ithat- the Roe-Afct# a ftnall
and red worm, (that has beep mentioned in foe chapter pf Infe£bJ
which is found in their hefties at this; time pf the year, and
makes them ro|t very fopn, fhpuld be digefted and carried pftl
But they ate',often, on account of their vaft numbers, kept thus
fhutupa fortnight.pr-tferee weeks.together; and, by This confine-
* Thefe Nordland Herrings are often fo..fat, thaf when they are put into; warm fauce;
they will diflblve away like an AnchUvy, and leavt" fadwitog *but die'bones.
ment,
NATURAL HIS T,0 R Y ?|o| N O R Tf 4 T. t é i
njent, .manys.of thdm.^4r‘e' .quit^, 6erfiaciated, and; others! die - and.
phtrify, filling the creek with filch -aftench;. that the vHerrings
avoid, the plkce whicMjWa.S'the?ir’hauof,- for twe^ or three years!to'
comp. An'inftaifdeM thi^ kind happened; in the year 1 f o m b e f t e h
Swa-fufej So,gn,;| where;' the fifoermjii|'had fhu& up^ an increcS)le
numbe'fe.qf Spring Herrings!, whicfca^^iitize^fipf Bergen boujght.
off them for 1 c qj-Rix-^ojlars; and^l^sk of Braiidy^They/a^Tn®}«
loaded 80 jaggers with them, and left, perhaps, as, many behind,
tp putrifo®p||he fand.
Of th^^ujnper>HerrjgnigJkin'#are thpfe which have been fpoM®iAa,,oj!rmai
of before hy the name?pf Brifl^g^mm^AilefiovSs^iwhicn diffe^"4
tQnly. in, ,the {harp^f^q^hhe^dbkUy -- and.. yaccdrditigh flof th ^ jtl
ropinion pf- mmy,' ^r?shu^the yQHjigfoy.of the common Heiruigs,, ^
which havejihofe attain’6dritheir .foil gfpwtfo y Others.3,;and per*.
, haps with better foundation,' -^epkoh ffiem %;'d.ijf^®'tt fpecjfes,.
which -n^yer grow, larger. e, fo,,^lfoou.ght fo^mergen,. ’
i^bout the. beginning 01 Decempe^Derom wd" ®Ve, 6neJ large.
'Herrintgs^'thSit come to the. coaft ^ahopt'the/micTclle
a"s.Jjobferved abQ%,^a middlq'h^d aijd-prgtty!tgood forb whichr
We call ^el-hoVed and, hk^yife a p.gfsticul^fo/A, ofj
Cod whiohf isrcaled by. ffiefainlfnamey thfe ^i^mowgW pjT ifM^tL
I am ,.uiiaeq,tiainte,d with^“ from this 'accoun^we. ma^IWc thaq
the reafon^why the Hefrfflg-,j^L^has bpen. faid beforef j is galled, the,
Kingvipf fif t ie s ,'^ hecaufe.. they'|^if§u,pf^ ‘ ifioftj
inrViceable^a'mankindfand^ate found. in^Ogreat&ft|atoi'da>n£g'i,
and nS^|^|^<mhnpof the homage paid them by oth^r,; Fifh.
On* th^iSiOnttary, thdy./-.arei.deyPqredT,hy almofoa^pth.gr k/uds,,
and harrafled by al,l, the-; ffea-‘birds j not to?0enti^ tne^numbefs»
.ih/t,-,ferve .forf5fOp'd.for the human* ipecies, whichj gerha®^da
^o^ixceea the ham of what is deftfoye® Notwithftamhng all
this, the H&|3iJhg! kind fo)neither, extinJI, nor vifibly .diminifheef;
. when Wt ;takiA^pi:^ e .||^t|Ut; what is contained in*,tne ih,
general: in this appears the providence or .the-Almighty Being,
'by whom all things exift,'and.are continually preferred according
feiC%b|f :m m m fo this light «the „Herrings, %te|feems' to;be ‘ /
fimilar. tpjfiat ofthe Ifraqlites; 'of whom i f is obferved, that hq|'\*
only formerly in>Dgypt, .but at tfos prefent _time irr-.every part
pf the wor'Jd, the more, they,are crufhed and opgreffed, the more
they multiply' and ertcr^fe.
The Skalle, the AlB||rntl|,, is afrelh-water Fifh, well knowh skaiie. -
ip Denmark, has large {cafes^yfroin whence dt probably'has ,
dt^pame. It is ^neratMCianght* ^ ' l a k e s in Rofoer^g®,
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