CHAPTER XXX. 



The Scandinavian Saltwater Pishes. — The Bosses. — Tlie Weevers. — 

 The Surmullets.— The Gurnards.— The Cotti.— The King-Fishes.— 

 The Great Sea-Adder. — The Maigre. — The Sea-Bream.s. — The 

 Mackerel. — The Tuimies.— The Scad.' — The Opah. — The Vaagmaer. 

 —The Mullets.— The Blennies.— The Sea- Wolf, — The Gobies— And 

 other Acanthopterygious Fishes allied to them. 



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TJIIING ouv boating excursions in the Skargard Ave 

 occasionally enjoyed a little sea fishing. Whiting, 

 haddock, codling, &c., were tolerably abundant, and, in the 

 season, mackerel and gar-fish also. Having always a line 

 in the boat, we, in calni weather, usually came to an 

 anchor, and in the course of two or three hours could 

 generally kill fish enough not only to sujiply a good 

 meal — which, there being a pan on board, was jn'epared at 

 once — but to salt down for future occasions. 



The Rev. Johan Odraan, the author of an interestin"- 

 history of Bohus-Lan, who flourished about a century ago, 

 tells us in his quaint way : — " The sea and waters more 

 greatly abound with the animal kingdom than the other 

 elements. There are fish great and small, whales of 



