Class IV. 



H A K 



The color of the head and back is a pale brown *, 

 the lateral line white, and is crooked •, the belly and 

 fides filyery ; the laft ftreaked lengthways with yel- 

 low. 



*9* 





With only two dorfal fins. 



Le Merluz. Belon, ir^. 

 Afellus, ovog, ovktjco^. Rondel. 

 ' 272. m 



Merlucius. Gefner pifc. 84. 

 Afellus primus five Merlu- 

 cius. Wil. Icth. 174. 

 The Hake. Raiifyn. pifc. 



Gadus dorfo dipterygio, max- 

 illa inferiore longiore. Ar- 

 ted.fynon 36. 



Gadus Merlucius. Lin, fyft. 

 439. Faun. Suec. No. 314. 

 Gronov. Zcopb, No. 315. 



Si. Hake, 



A FISH that is found in vaft abundance on ma- 

 ny of our coafts, and of thofe of Ireland. 

 There was formerly a vaft ftationary fifhery of Hake 

 on the Nymph Bank off the coaft of Waterford, im- 

 menfe quantities appearing there twice a year; the 

 fir ft fhoal coming in June^ during the Mackrel fea- 

 fon, the other in September, at the beginning of 

 the Herring feafon, probably in purfuit of thofe 

 fim : it was no unufu-al thing for fix men with 

 hooks and lines to take a thoufand Hake in one 

 night, befides a confiderable quantity of other fifh. 

 Thefe were falted and fent to Spain, particularly 



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