The Atlantic Ocean.
1686. I’le send an account of the wonders I meet on the Great Herring Pond.—J. Dunton, ‘Letters from New England,’ p. 19. (N.E.D.)
1722. ’Tis odds but a finer country, cheaper and better food and raiment, wholesomer air, easier rent and taxes, will tempt many of your countrymen to cross the herring-pond.—‘England’s Path to Wealth,’ cited in Nares’s ‘Glossary’ Notes and Queries, 8 S. vi. 153.
1796. To cross the herring-pond at the King’s expense; to be transported.—Grose, ‘Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue’: id., p. 154.
1815. He’ll plague you, now he’s come over the herring-pond!—Scott, ‘Guy Mannering,’ ch. xxxiv.: id., p. 48.
