The Grammar of English Grammars, page 597 by Gould Brown
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ies after Johnson, because he so often gives the same passages variously. But he himself is reckoned good authority in things literary. Be it so. I regret the many proofs of his fallibility. "Hear you this Triton of the _minnows?_"--Shak. "The shoal of herrings was of an immense extent."--_Murray's Key_, p. 185. "Buy my herring fresh."--SWIFT: _in Joh. Dict._ "In the fisheries of Maine, _cod, herring, mackerel alewives, salmon_, and other fish, are taken."--_Balbi's Geog._, p. 23. "MEASE, _n._ The quantity of 500; as, a mease of herrings."--_Webster's Dict._ "We shall have plenty of mackerel this season."--ADDISON: _in Joh. Dict._ "Mackarel is the same in both numbers. Gay has improperly mackarels."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 208. "They take salmon and trouts by groping and tickling them under the bellies."--CAREW: _in Joh. Dict._ "The pond will keep trout and salmon in their seasonable plight."--_Id., ib., w. Trout_. "Some fish are preserved fresh in vinegar, as turbot."--_Id., ib., w. Turbot_. "Some fish are boiled and preserved fresh in vinegar, as tunny and turbot."--_Id., ib., w. Tunny_. "Of round fish, there are _brit, sprat, barn, smelts_."--_Id., ib., w. Smelt._ "For sprats and spurlings for your house."--TUSSEE: _ib., w. Spurling_. "The coast is plentifully stored with _pilchards, herrings_, and haddock."--CAREW: _ib., w. Haddock_. "The coast is plentifully stored with round _fish, pilchard, herring, mackerel_, and _cod_"--_Id., ib., w. Herring_. "The coast is plentifully stored with _shellfish, sea-hedgehogs, scallops, pilcherd, herring_, and pollock."--_Id., ib., w. Pollock_. "A roach is a fish of no great reputation for his dainty taste. It is noted that roaches recover strength and grow a fortnight after spawning."--WALTON: _ib., w. Roach_. "A friend of mine stored a pond