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new piles, to let the brine run off; and when the 

 fifh is become fomewhat firm, they put it for fome 

 time under prefles, to flatten it, and to prefs out 

 the brine ftill more. And laft of all, they lay it 

 out on rocks, or other places, where it is expofed 

 to the cool air. 



As the Shetlanders have but fmall boats, and the 

 fea furrounding their iflj|nd is fubjeft to ftorms, 

 they cannot filh in winter, but make flack-fijh, of 

 what they take^|Hjfummer, which is prepared 

 much like the plat-fijh above mentioned. They 

 corn it with white Scotch fait, and having left it to 

 drip, lay it out on rocks. They preferve the 

 heads, which they fplit open and fait ; when the 

 heads are dried like the reft of the fifh, they keep 

 very well. 



The fifti, that has got a faking, is more tender 

 than that dried without fait. It keeps alfo for a 

 long time, is more efteemed, and fells dearer than 

 the other. 



Of Stock-fjh, or fijh dried without fait. 



The vfor& Jlock-fijh, which is a compound of 

 two German words, viz. flock ^ which fignifies 

 wood or flick, and Jifh, is a generical term for 

 fifh, that, by drying alone, becomes as hard as a 

 flick) and is ufed in all the northern languages, to 

 fignify every fort of fifh, which is preferved with- 



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