26 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FISHERIES. 



vincetown cow will dissect the head of a cod with wonderful 

 celerity. She places one foot upon a part of it, and with her 

 teeth tears off the skin and gristly parts, and in a few mo- 

 ments nothing is left but the bones. 



The inhabitants of Provincetovvn are not the only people 

 who feed their cattle upon fish. The nations of the Coroman- 

 del coast, as well as in the other parts of the East, practise 

 feeding their flocks and herds with fish. The celebrated tra- 

 veller, Ibn Batuta, who visited Zafar, the most easterly city 

 in Yemen, in the early part of the fourteenth century, says 

 that the inhabitants of that city carried on a great trade in 

 horses in India, and at that period fed their flocks and herds 

 with fish, a practice which he says, he had no where else ob- 

 served. 



[Note. The preceding article has been obligingly furnish- 

 ed by Solomon Lincoln, Esq. of Hingham, whose indus- 

 try and research entitles him to our warmest thanks.] 



