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CONGER. Class IV. 



people therefore prefer the fmalleft, pofnbly be- 

 caufe they are fooneft cured. During the procefs 

 there is a confiderable flench ; and it is laid that 

 in the fifbing villages the poultry are fed with the 

 maggots that drop from the fifh. 



The Portuguefe and Spaniards ufe thofe dried 

 congers after they have been ground into a powder, 

 to thicken and give a reliiri to their foups. We 

 think they are fold for about forty (billings the 

 quintal, which weighs one hundred and twenty-fix 

 pounds. 



A fifhery of congers would be of great advan- 

 tage to the inhabitants of the Hebrides. Perhaps 

 they would at firit undertake it with repugnancy, 

 from their abfurd averiion to the eel kind. 



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