192 NATURAL HISTORY [Fishes. 



man Sea, and, in a few words, very few places on the northern 

 coasts of Scotland, where a ship or boat can ride safely, but 

 cod may be got in quantities, and these sizeable, besides 

 other fish in plenty. 



Species 2. The Haddock. 



Haddock, Wil. Icth. 170. Rail Syn. Pise. 55. Gadus ^Eglefinus, Lin. Sys. 

 435. Brit. Zool. J44. Sib. Scot. 23. 



THIS species is not so frequent on the coasts of Orkney as 

 cod-fish, nor are they caught in any quantity ; they seem 

 only to visit us by the bye, and to make no great stay. A few 

 very fine ones are got in the west sea, but very seldom can 

 they be got in season, owing to the stormy weather on our 

 coasts in their time. A few are got in summer in Hoy-Sound, 

 and through the other tide-ways of Orkney , especially the south- 

 east corner of it ; but these are but small and poor. 



Perhaps, indeed, our fishermen have not the method of 

 catching haddocks, which makes us imagine them scarcer than 

 they really are. However this may be, very few hadocks are 

 got in a year in the Orkneys. 



