11 : ■ i the I toot : it has toll! • of" which are remarkably . and open verj « ide, bo that this ti^h almost instantly dies, when taken out of water. Herrings are tmincl in great abundance, from the hi northern latitudes, down to the northern coast of France : are also met with io the Yarmouth seas from the end of August till the middle of October; and are in rull roe about the latter end of June, whence they continue in perfection tiJl the beginning of winter, at which season they de- posit their spawn. Among the various methods em- ployed for salting or curing her- rings, and sprats, we shall briefly notice one, invented by Mr. Bi x- jamin B.-tley, of Streatham, Surrey, merchant ; for which he obtained a patent in September, lbOO. — After severing the head, and taking out the entrails of the fish, he salts the body with bay, rock, or common salt (if not suf- ficiently salted as sea-sticisj, pre- ferring, however, the bay or rock salt to the common, which is to absorb the pickle, and occasion the fish to rust. The patentee then prepares a pickle, consisting of one pound of bay salt, four ounces of sait-petre, from two to four pounds ot molasses, and a gallon of spring- water ; which is boiled till the other ingredients are dissolved. The herrings are then packed as usual in a cask ; between ever/ layer of them he sprinkles a small portion of salt, and also of pickle, to cover the fish • but leaves three inches of the head of the cask un- stowed, in order to fill up that space with the pickle. When beaded up, a cork-hole may be H I € [463 r in the head or centra of which • ;r -', be in:. fish. — With '.-.ncct to the ring sprats, f differs in some particular*; and th »s • who wish to acquire more minute inform ition • «c refer to the 14th volume of the of Arts and Manufac- tures. By I Enw. IV. c. 2, no herring shall Ik*, sold in an unless the barrel contain 3_! gal- lons ; and so in proportion the hatf barrel and firkin. Such fish are d to be well packed, and all 0! the same sailing, and to be. as good in the middle of the cask as at the ends, under t lie penalty of 3s. 4d. for each barrel, 8cc. Last- ly, by the Io Cak.11. c. 1 6, the is for herrings are to be mark- ed with the quantity they contain, and ihe place where packed : sworn packers are likewise to be appoint- . . 3 ports, on pah foil citing lOOl. Considered as an article of food, . if moderately eaten, I nutriment sufficiently wholc-
- but, if taken in quantities
(portioned to the powers of digestion, they are attended with an alkaline putrid effect on tie I - mach. Farther, pickled herrings are very improper food ; their flesh bc- iog thus rendered hard, and scarce- ly digestible : nevertheless, even in that decomposed state, they an* not so injurious as herrings salted* and dried. Hessi.-n Fly: See Fly, the Co 1/1. HICCOUGH, or Hiccup (Stn- gultusj, a sudJen convulsive mo- tion of the stomach, occasioned jv various causes', such as a fit of lane.
