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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: not those that are taken thereabouts.
The quantity of herrings that are caught in this season are
diversely accounted for. Some have said that the towns of Yarmouth
and Lowestoft only have taken 40,000 last in a season. I will not
venture to confirm that report; but this I have heard the merchants
themselves say, viz., that they have cured - that is to say, hanged
and dried in the smoke - 40,000 barrels of merchantable red
herrings in one season, which is in itself (though far short of the
other) yet a very considerable article; and it is to be added that
this is besides all the herrings consumed in the country towns of
both those populous counties for thirty miles from the sea, whither
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