g2 COD FISHERY. 



of France, but' it is more abundant in the Ger- 

 man fea, efpecially at the North of Scotland and 

 Ireland. There is, however, a much greater quan- 

 tity of it in North America, as alfo in the North 

 of Europe, at Iceland, Shetland, Greenland, 

 Denmark, Norway, Ruffia, &c. 



Anderfon, in his natural hiflory of Iceland, 

 multiplies the different fpecies of cod-filh too much. 

 The Northern words Dorfch and Torjk^ are gene- 

 rical denominations of all forts of fiih of the 

 genus of the Afellus^ gadus^ or cod, which, how- 

 ever, does not prevent the application of thefe 

 names, in a particular manner, to one fpecies, 

 rather than to another. Mr. Horrebows, who 

 lived for fever al years in Iceland, afferts, that the 

 Torjk of , the northern fiihers, is the fame as the 

 Cabillaud of the Dutch, ( Afellus major vulgarisj 

 and that the Torfchet, or Ti/ling of the Icelanders, is 

 . a diminutive of Torjk^ that is, young T~Q%ft 9 which 

 is called Bergen-fifh^ in Denmark. He adds, 

 that the Tor/X 9 of a middle fize, is called Titthing, 

 in Iceland, and Mittel-dorfch > in Denmark. Ac- 

 cording to him, there are three forts of cod near 

 Iceland ; the firft fort, which they call dorfch^ is . 

 the beft, and is known in Denmark, under the 

 name of Kabllau ; the middle fort is called in 

 Iceland, Stuttingen, and the fmall kind, Tt/ling. 

 Thefe three fpecies are allowed to be torfks of dif- 

 ferent ages, and do not differ from each other, but 

 in their fize. He fays alfo, that the lingen^ or 



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