148 POLLACK. 



rocks in the most turbulent and rapid sea: they are 

 a good eating fish: they do not grow to a very 

 large size; at least the biggest we have seen did 

 not exceed six or seven pounds ; but we have heard 

 of some that were taken in the sea near Scarborough, 

 which they frequent during the winter, that weighed 

 near twenty-eight pounds : they are there called 

 Leets. The under jaw is longer than the upper : 

 the head, and body rises pretty high, as far as the 

 first dorsal fin: the side-line is incurvated, rising 

 toward the middle of the back, and then sinking 

 and running strait to the tail : it is broad and of a 

 brown colour : the first dorsal fin has eleven rays, 

 the middle nineteen, and the last sixteen : the tail 

 is a little forked : the colour of the back is dusky, 

 of some inclining to green : the sides beneath the 

 lateral line marked with lines of yellow : the belly 

 white." 



Dr. Bloch observes that the scales of the Pollack 

 are small, thin, oblong, and bordered with yellow : 

 according to that author it is found in the Baltic 

 and the Northern sea : it feeds chiefly on small fish, 

 and especially on launces, which are generally found 

 in its stomach. 



