298 HISTORY OF THE 



The thicker the founds are, the better the ifinglafs, 

 colour excepted ; but that is immaterial to the brewer, 

 who is its chief confumer.* 



Befides this ufeful article^ the tongues of cod and 

 ling fifli are faked and barrelled up for fale. As 

 alfo the roes, which being falted and barrelled, ferve 

 to caft into the fea, to draw fifh together, particularly 

 pilchards. The livers of thefe fifh produce oiJ, 

 which is ufed chiefly in drefiing of leather. 



LINO . The ling fifh abound near the Scilly Ides, 

 and on the Yorklhire coaft. In the latter they are 

 in perfection from the ift of February to the ift of 

 May, and fomc till the end of that month. In June 

 they fpawn, depofiting their eggs in the foft oozy 

 ground of the mouth of the Tees. At that time the 

 males feparate from the females and refort to fome 

 rocky ground near Flamborough Head, where the 

 fifhermen take great numbers without ever finding 

 any of the female or roed fifh among them. 



While a ling is in feafon its liver is very white, 

 and abounds with a fine flavoured oil ; but when 

 the fifti goes out of feafon, the liver becomes red 

 like that of a bullock, and affords no oil. The fame 

 happens to the cod and other fifli in a certain degree, 

 but not fo remarkably as in the ling. When the filh is 

 in perfection, a very large quantity of oil may be 

 melted out of the liver, by a flow fire, but if a violent 

 Tudden heat be ufed for that purpofe, they yield very 

 little. 



Great quantities of ling are falted for exportation, 



* It is alfo ufed fey wine coopers, being the mo ft efficacious, as 

 well as the moft fate and innocent of all the ingredients they life for 

 clearing their wines. It is alfo an excellent agglutinant and 

 ftrengthener, a*id is often prefer ibed in jellies -aad broths. The 

 greateft quantity of ifinglafs is made in Ruflia from a (pecies of fifli 

 very common in the Volga. We have it principally from the Dutch, 

 who contract for it before it is made. It is alfo plenty on the 

 banks of the Danube, and might be equally fo on the Britifh mores, 

 cfpecially thofe of the north, where cod and ling are in the greateft 



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