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whitifb. They grow to the fame fize as the for- 

 mer. 



The Cornijb flmermen are faid to whittle, and 

 make ufe of the words Bod, Bod, vean, when they 

 are defirous of taking this fifh, as if by that they 

 facilitated the capture. In the fame manner the 

 Sicilian fifhermen repeat their Mamajfu di pajanu, 

 &c. when they are in purfuit of the Sword Fijh *. 





With only one dorfal fin. 



THIS fifli has been hitherto fuppofed to be of ^' ToRSK< 

 the fection of this genus, which has three 

 dorfal fins. The fpecies known in Sweden by that 

 name is included in that divifion 5 and as fuch I 

 defcribed it in the former edition from the account 

 Linnaeus has given us. But from the information of 

 the Rev. Mr. Low, minifter of Birfa, Orkney, who 

 in 1774, made (at my requeft) the voyage of the 

 Shetland iflands, I find the Britijh Torfk to be to- 

 tally different -, and will occafion the addition of a 

 fourth divifion in this genus. 



The Torjk is defcribed and engraven in Mr, 

 Strom's hiflory of Sondmoer, under the fame name.-f 



* Vide f>. 162 , 



t Eller Torjky p. 272. tab. I. fig, 19. and when dried, 

 Klip-jijk. 



The 



