4oS A VOYAGE TO Book IX, 



day, or when the fait appears to have fufficiently 

 penetrated, they wafli them, and take them in pairs 

 by the tails, then fiiake them in the water in order 

 to carry off the fcum extrafted by the fak: after- 

 wards, that the water may run off, they, are piled 

 up on little boards ; then they are ftrctched out one 

 by one, with the ilvin upwards, in order for dtying, 

 where they aie turned three or four times. Being 

 thus thoroughly dried, they are piled up in fmall 

 parcels, that they may not entirely lofe the heat 

 communicaced to them by the firft fair: and now 

 being faked a fecond time, they are laid up in regu- 

 lar heaps on the ftage ; and there they remain till 

 the time of fliipping them. ' As the boats go con- 

 ftantly every day, the work of the feveral claffes 

 may be imagined pretty hard and fatiguing. On 

 the return of die boats they immediately begin with 

 opening and faking the fiih, which takes up the 

 greater part of the night; and the fucceeding parts 

 of the cnrihg above-mentioned neceifarily keep them 

 employed the following day, when the return of 

 the barks call upon them to renew their taikj that 

 thus they have very few hours \t{t for fltep and re- 

 freihmenr. Tiiere are two kinds of cod, as to their 

 quality \ and of each three fizes. Both have a line 

 running from the gills to the tail ; following the figure 

 of the belly of the fifl-i, and winds a litde downwards 

 from the head to the tail; but this is more diftinft 

 in one fpecits than the other : and the whole fiih 

 from this line to the back is of a dark brown, whilil 

 the lower part is fpotted with white. The con- 

 noiffeurs in fifii fay that this is better than the 

 other; the whole body of which is of a darkifli 

 white with reddiih fpots; but the belly and all its 

 hinder parts the whiteft. 1 Iball not enter into an 

 account of the difproportion of its head compara- 

 tively to the other fiíhes, or the quantity of oil made 

 ixova it and the livers^ which arc alio s^ry large. 



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