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<with a needle, in order to difengage the enclofed air; 

 for without this operation it could not be kept under 

 water in the well-boats, and brought frefh to mar- 

 ket. The founds of the cod faked is a delicacy 

 often brought from Newfoundland. Ifinglafs is alfo 

 made of this part by the Iceland fifhermen ; the pro- 

 cefs of which is thus given by Humphry Jackfon, 

 Efq. in the Philofophical Tranfactions of 1773. 



The founds of cod and ling bear a general likenefs 

 to thole of the flurgeon kiad of Linnaeus and Artedi, 

 and are in general fo well known as to require no 

 particular defcription. The Newfoundland and Ice- 

 land fifhermen fplit open the fifh as foon as taken, and 

 throw the back-bones, with the founds annexed, in 

 a heap ; but previous to putrefaction, the founds are 

 cut out, warned from their dimes, and faked for ufe. 

 In cutting out the founds, the parts between the 

 ribs are left behind, which are much the bed; the 

 Iceland fifhermen are fo fenfible of this, that they 

 beat the bones upon a block with a thick flick, till 

 the pockets, as they term them, come out eafily, 

 and thus preferve the found entire. If the founds 

 have been cured with fait, that mull be diiTolved by 

 fteeping them in water, before they are prepared for 

 ifinglafs. The frelh found mufr then be laid upon a 

 block of wood, whofe furface is a little elliptical, to 

 the end of which a fmall hair brufh is nailed, and 

 with a faw knife, the membranes on each fide of the 

 found mud be fcraped off. The knife is rubbed 

 upon the brufh occafionally,. to clear its teeth, the 

 pockets are cut open with fciflars, and perfectly 

 cleanfed of the mucous matter with a coarfe cloth : 

 the founds are afterwards wafhed a few minutes in 

 lime water, in order to abforb their oily principles ; 

 and laftly, in clear water. They are then laid upon 

 nets, to dry in the air j but if intended to refrmble 

 foreign ifinglafs, the founds cf cod will only admit 

 of due called back, but thofe of ling both fhapes. 



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