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in the inteftines at a confiderable diflance from the ftomach, and 

 I found the fame to confifl of fragments of flirimps mixed with . 

 many particles of fand, rather larger than the fand found on the 

 fea fhore, and which particles of fand I concluded the haddock had 

 picked up with tlie fhrimps from the bottom of the fea, and had 

 fwallowed down both together. Among thefe grains of fand, 1 faw 

 many fliining particles, iome thoufands of which, laid together in an 

 heap, would not equal a large grain of fand : thefe were all of different 

 fliapes, but, in every one of them, the fides, angles and points, 

 were fo fmooth and glittering, as to be very little inferior in beauty 

 to the moft poliflied diamonds. At firlt, I fuppofed them to be no 

 other than common fait, but I found them to be much more hard 

 and folid than our lalt. After I had fteeped them a fliort time in 

 rain water, I could ftill diflinguifh fome of them, though much di- 

 miniflied in brightnefs ; others of them, feemed to be partly dif- 

 folved, and to be furrounded with fmaller particles : thefe latter, I 

 concluded to be, flill more minute falts, which, in diflblving, had 

 Separated from the larger ones, and afterwards concreted in cluflers. 

 In the month of November in the fame year, there was anotlier 

 great draught of haddocks on our coaft, whereupon I went to the 

 fifh marketto examine the inteftines, when newly taken out of the fifh : 

 I found mofi: of the flomachs to be empty of food, but fome re- 

 mains thereof in the inteflines ; and, as at the fame time, great 

 plenty of cod fifli were caught, I judged that the haddocks, avoid- 

 ing the purfuit of the cod, and thefe purfuing the haddocks, was the 

 reafon, that both were taken in fuch abundance. 



Thofe perfons, who are very nice in their tafle, prefer the had- 

 docks brought to us from Maeflandfluys, to thofe that are brought 

 ftraight from the fea Ihore, though botli are taken near the lame 

 traft in the ocean.. Upon confidering with myfelf, what might be 

 the reafon of this difference, I could not aflign any more probable 



