HADDOCK. Ill 



have been taken of from fourteen to sixteen. The 

 haddock is celebrated in Scotland under the name 

 of the " Finnan," and in Ireland, as the " Dublin 

 Bay" haddock. 



The haddock spawns in February and March, 

 and the young, early in September, are about six 

 inches in length. They are called by the French 

 " Hadot" most likely a name derived from ours. 



Vast quantities are caught on the coast of 

 America, and as in this country furnish an immense 

 amount of nutritious food for the inhabitants in 

 England they arc salted and smoked, making a very 

 nice addition to the breakfast table in that form, 

 and all of us well know the annoyance they have 

 given continually from the stentorian lungs of 

 some "fish clioivder" bawling " Fine smoked had- 

 dick, haddick ;" c., &c. The shoals of haddocks 

 have been known to extend three miles in breadth 

 and fifty miles in length. Haddocks bear on their 

 sides a peculiar mark, supcrstitiously regarded as 

 the impression of St. Peter's finger and thumb, 

 and supposed to be perpetuated in order to identify 

 the fish out of whose mouth the Apostle took the 

 tribute money. 



