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thejhe/l-fob being made of a kind of fifti, which 

 is more fcaly than Torfch ; for in Holland, and in 

 Low Germany, the fcales of fifh are called fchelfen. 

 It is made of various forts of good fifh, prepared 

 much in the fame manner as ftock-fifh. As to the 

 Abberdahn, which is made of different forts of 

 fmall fifh, falted and dried, there is none of it fent 

 out of Denmark and Lower Saxony. 



OF THE METHODS OF FISHING FOR COD, 

 PRACTISED BY THE NATIVES OF DIF- 

 FERENT PARTS OF THE NORTH OF 

 EUROPE. 



The manner of fifhing for cod, or torfch, in the 

 north, differs but little from that, which is praftifed 

 at Newfoundland. When the fea is not too high, 

 three fifhermen go out in fmall boats, about twelve 

 or fourteen feet long, called fchuts, and fifh with 

 fimple lines, at a fhort diftance from the coaft. 

 Each fifherman fometimes throws out four lines, 

 two at each fide of the boat. As the fifh, which 

 comes near the coaft, is ufually of a fmall kind, 

 their lines are fine, and the hooks very fmall. 



When they go out farther from fhore, or 

 if the fea is high, they ufe fchuts ftronger built, 

 of four or five tons burthen, with four or five fifh- 

 ermen, and, for the moft part, ufe oars. But, if 



they 



