190 



WHITING. Class IV. 



80. Whi- Secunda afellorum fpecies. 

 ting. Rondel. 276. 



Merlanus. Rondel. Gefner pifc. 



Afellus candidus primus, 

 Witling. Schonevelde, 17. 



Afellus mollis major, feu al- 

 bus. Wil. Iclh. 170. 



Whiting. Rail fyn. pifc. 55. 



Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 

 imberbi corpore albo, max- 

 illa fuperiore longiore. Ar- 

 ced, fynon. 34. 



Gadus merlangus. Lin. Jyft. 

 438. Gronou. Xooph. No. 



3 l6 : 



Hwitling, Widding. Faun. 

 Suec. No. 310. 



WHITINGS appear in vaft Ihoals in our 

 feas in the ipring, keeping at the diftance 

 of about half a mile to that of three from the 

 ihore. They are caught in vaft numbers by the 

 line, and afford excellent diverfion. 



They are the mod delicate, as well as the mod 

 wholefome of any of the genus, but do not grow to 

 a large fize; the biggeft we ever faw* not ex- 

 ceeding twenty inches, but that is very uncom- 

 mon, the ufual length being ten or twelve. 



It is a fifh of an elegant make : the upper jaw 

 is the longeft ; the eyes large, the nofe fharp, the 

 teeth of the upper jaw long, and appear above the 

 lower when doled. 



The firil dorfal fin has fifteen rays, the fecond 

 eighteen, the laft twenty. 



* We have been informed that whitings, from four to eight 

 pounds in weight, have been taken in the deep water at the 

 edge of the Dogger-Bank, 



The 



