CHAPTER XXX. 



THE SCANDINAVIAN SALT-WATER FISHES. The lassos. Tin- 

 The Surmullets. The (Jurnank The Cotti. The 

 The Great S, .. A.l.ler. The Maigre. The Sea-Breams. The 

 Mackerel The Tumiies. The Scad. The Optih. The Vaagnmer. 

 The Mullete.* The 151, nt.i.-s. The Sea- Wolf. - The Gobies An.l 

 other Acanthoptcrygious Fishes allied t<> them. 



DURING our boating excursions in the Skiirgiird we 

 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 calm weather, usually came to an 

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

 generally kill fish enough not only to supply a good 

 meal which, there being a pan on hoard, was prepared at 

 once but to salt down for future occasions. 



The Rev. Johan Oilman, the author of an interesting 

 history of Bonus- JJin, 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. Then- are fish great and small, whales of 



