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loaded. Sometimes they are cut into thick pieces, and packed in 

 barrels, for the greater convenience of carriage. 



In the Newfoundland fishery, the sounds, or air-bladders, are taken 

 out previously to incipient putrefaction, are washed from their slime 

 and "salted for exportation. The tongues are also cured, and brought 

 in barrels containing four or five hundred pounds weight each. From 

 the livers a great quantity of oil is extracted. 



Cod feed principally on the smaller species of fish, on worms 

 shell-fish, and crabs: and their digestion is sufficiently powerful tc. 

 dissolve the greatest part even of the shells which they swallow. 



They are so extremely prolific, that Leuwenhoek counted more 

 than nine millions of eggs in the roe of a middling-sized Cod-fish. 

 The production of so great a number will surely baffle all the efforts 

 of man, or the voracity of the inhabitants of the ocean, to diminish 

 the species so greatly, as to prevent its affording an inexhaustible 

 supply of grateful provision in all ages. 



THE HADDOCK. 



Haddocks migrate in immense shoals, which usually arrive on the 

 Yorkshire coasts about the 

 middle of winter. These 

 shoals are sometimes known 

 to extend, from the shore, 

 nearly three miles in breadth, 

 and in length from Flam- j 

 borough Head to Tin mouth 

 Castle, fifty miles, and per- 

 haps even much further. 

 An idea of the number of 

 Haddocks may be formed 



from the following circumstance : three fishermen, within a mile of 

 the harbor of Scarborough, frequently loaded their boat with these 

 fish twice a day, taking each time about a ton weight of them. The 

 large Haddocks quit the coast as soon as they are out of season, and 

 leave behind them great abundance of small ones. The former are 

 supposed to visit the coasts of Hamburgh and Jutland during the 

 summer. 



THE WHITING. 



It is principally near the bottom of the sea, that the Whiting 

 resides. Here it feeds on various species of Crabs and Lobsters, on 

 molluscae, and young fish. In its stomach there are often found both 

 Sprats and young Herrings. With these the fishermen frequently 

 bait their hooks for the catching of Whitings: they also occasionallj 

 bait with marine Worms and Muscles. 



Whitings are generally caught off certain parts of the French 

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