236 LING. 



longest, and the lateral line is curved. Their colour ii 

 blackish-brown above ; and silvery, with brown dots: 

 below. 



Hake. On the Nymph Bank, off the coast of Water i 

 ford, as well as in several places off the coasts of Devon-c 

 shire and Cornwall, these fish are caught in vast abun-t 

 dance. The first shoal generally arrives in the montliE 

 of June, during the mackerel-season, and the other in 

 September, at the beginning of the herring-season. 11 

 is, consequently, supposed that they follow these fish 

 for the purpose of preying upon them. Mr. Pennant 

 states, that formerly it was no unusual thing on the 

 Nymph Bank, for six men, with hooks and lines, to 

 take a thousand Hake in one night, besides a consider- 

 able quantity of other fish. This fishery has, however', 

 been long on the decline. Nearly all the Hake thus 

 caught were salted and exported to Spain and Portugal. 

 The flesh of the Hake is white, but coarse, woolly, and 

 by no means so good as that of most other fish of the cod 

 trihe. 



In its general length, the Hake measures from two to 

 three feet. It has two dorsal fins, the second of which 

 extends nearly to the tail. The under jaw is the longest, 

 and the mouth is without beard. The upper parts of the 

 body are cinereous, and the lower parts dirty white. The 

 head is flat and broad, the mouth wide, and the teeth very 

 large and sharp. 



Ling. These are the longest and narrowest fish o\ 

 their tribe. They are very abundant on the coasts ol 

 Scotland and Ireland. In Norway they are caught in 

 the spring of the year, and again in the autumn. Lines 

 of sixty fathoms in length are used, having their hooks 



