HABITAT OF THE COD. 



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compensate for the havoc committed among its kind by 

 its numerous enemies. 



We meet with this valuable fish in all the waters of 

 the northern hemisphere between the 40th and 60th 

 parallels of latitude. It would seem, as an old writer 

 puts it, that Providence has willed the cod should abound 

 in the temperate and northern regions; in Denmark, 

 Norway, Sweden, Iceland, the Orkneys, and " many parts 

 of Muscovy," as well as in other countries where cereals 

 cannot be cultivated on account of the inclemency of the 

 climate. And where the fishery is successful the inhabi- 

 tants not only make its products, either fresh or dried, 

 their great substitute for food, " but sell them in large 



