THE TRUE FISHES. 





great Head, over which hangs a Skin like a Bag. This i 

 Fisher; for having a Line or handsom Cord fastned about him. 

 a Turtel, or any other of his Prey, comes above Wati r, theA 

 whereupon the Guaican, like an Arrow out of a Bowe, sin 

 other Fish, and then gathering the Month of the Bag lb 



Purse-net holds them so fast, that he lets not loose till hal'd u 

 Water." 



Fig. 320. — Suck-iisli {Remora). 



While in Europe the herring is the most important of fish . 

 the family of cods must take that rank. No other .-roup can begin I 

 it, Firsthand foremost of the family comes the cod itself, a fish - 

 as not to need description. It is a circumpolar species, which i 

 our coast in abundance to south of Cape Cod, and in nu 



as Cape Hatteras. The great fisheries, however, are farther 

 North of Cape Cod, away to beyond the Arctic Circle, 

 almost anywhere; but there are certain spots where - esp 

 dant. Tliese are shoal places mi -bank-' in the - "■! 



Grand Banks of Newfoundland and the Georg. 

 Scotia are doubtless the best known. The Grand Banks 



