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TU~Nl!' FISHERY AT XONIL. .55grand academy of slang and profligacy.Two of these fish are a loadfor a Y,oke of oxen. They approach the shore in shoals. The nets arespread out and around to a considerable extent, in the expectation ofinclosing them, which they do not fail to Jo, the fish ~ontinuingswirnmingroundandroundwithin,not making anyeffort to escape, uutilthe tide·leaves them dry, wheu theyare cartedaway. Thus a vastquantity is annually taken.rrhis procedure takès place during thesummer solstice here, a tirne when, from t.he difficulty found in curingthem in our northern latitudes, the visit of a shoal of herrings ceases 'to.be a blessiog.Here they find no difficulty in what should be a muchmoredelicatepr