This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ... of curiiig herring which fits them for exportation with th greatest advantage, is com para t i v!v modern. Fatly in the fifteenth century, (about 1410 to 1410) William Bucktlz, a native of Bier Lliet, discovered the mode of curing and pirkling herrings: his fume followed; it evt ii survived his decease; for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ... of curiiig herring which fits them for exportation with th greatest advantage, is com para t i v!v modern. Fatly in the fifteenth century, (about 1410 to 1410) William Bucktlz, a native of Bier Lliet, discovered the mode of curing and pirkling herrings: his fume followed; it evt ii survived his decease; for the Emperor Charles V. with his Empress, coming into the Low Countries, made a journey to Bier Uliet, expressly for the purpose of visiting the tomb of Will. Buckelz, --the first barreller of herring for exportation The Dutch hare the greatest cause to venerate his memory; for so long as they preserved the secret, and followed his maxims, they sent from fifteen hundred to two thousand herring-busses to sea, annually; and till petrified by the all-destroying power of French liberty, half that number visited our coasts, and carried off the spoils of the sea, by their superior industry, from British spectators, on British shores. But, we do not mean to describe our countrymen as unconcerned spectators; they exerted themselves in part, and British herrings became formidable rivals to the Dutch, when most in vogue, and where those could not be had, they became very acceptable substitutes. Yet, it is generally agreed, that we do not make the most of the advantages offered us by nature, in crowding our coasts with fish of the most advantageous description. Our Island is so situated, that the vast shoals which annually proceed from the north to lower latitudes, must pass along its coasts; and their immense masses, not unequal in the whole to that of the United Kingdom, must separate at the northern point of our territory. The Reports before us refer chiefly to those parts: and are accounts, more part iculerly, --from the West Coast, --Glasgow, Greenock, Campcllown
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