Class IV. LIN 



197 



Ling, Lingfifche. Belon, 130. Jy*kp\fc. 56. 85. L-iti<G« 



Gefner pifc 95. Gadus dorfo dipterygo, ere 



Molva major Charhton ex. pifc. ferrato, maxilla fuperiore 



3. longiore. Arted. Jynon, 36. 



Afellus longus, eine Lengc. Gadus molva. Lin. Jyjl. 439. 



Schonevelde, 18. Langa. Faiut> Suec. No. 313. 



Ling. Wil. Icth. 175. Rail 



THE ling takes 4ts name from its length, 

 being corrupted from the word long, k 

 abounds about the Stilly Ifles, on the coafts of Scar- 

 borough^ and thofe of Scotland and Ireland, and 

 forms a confiderable article of commerce * 



In the Fork/hire feas they are in perfection from 

 the beginning of February to the beginning of 

 May, and fome till the end of that month. Ir 

 June they fpawn, depofiting their eggs in the foft 

 opzy ground of the mouth of the Tees : at that 

 time the males feparate from the females, and refort 

 to fome rocky ground near Flamborough Head, 

 where the fifhermen take great numbers without 

 ever finding any of the female or roed fifti among 

 them. 



While a ling is in feafon its liver is very white, ° ;l -< 

 and abounds with a fine flavored oil ; but as foon 



* This branch of trads-was cpnfiderable fo long ago as 

 fhe reign of Edward III. an act for regulating the price of 

 Lob 9 Ling> tnd Qod 9 being made in his 31ft year. 



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