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SECT. 11. JUGULAR. 



XVIII. COD. Br. Zool. ni. p. 172. Genus XIX» 



* With three dorfal fins. 



87. Common. Jr. Zoo/, iii. N" 73. Gadus morhua, i/«. 436. 



I^ONSULT Br. Zool. iii. 137. and refpefting the great Newfoundland 

 jEIhery, p. cxcvi. of the Introduftion to this work. But the fuUeft 

 count of this important fiftiery is to be feen in M. Du Hamel's Traite' 

 ge'ne'ral des pescheSj vol. ii. p. 37 ; where the whole ceconomy is 

 given, and the manner expreffed by moft numerous and elegant en- 

 gravings. Codlings are caught, in the fpring months, off the coaft of 

 Carolina, but they are confidered only as ftragglers from the great 

 northern army. 



38. Frosto r^ Of an elegant taper form : no beard. Head dufliy : back and fides 

 prettily marked with black waving bands, reaching almofi: to the 

 belly ; the ground color dark, the dorfal fins an3 tail fpeckled with blacks 

 Are fometimes found a foot long, but generally not half that fize. 

 Place. The length of the fpecimen in the Blackburnian Mufeum was only 



four inches, and a half» but fometimes grows to the length of twelve 

 inches. It was fent from New Tork under the name of the Frojt Fijhy 

 being probably the forerunner of winter. 



80. Haddock. ^*'- '^<"'^- i"- N° 74. — Gadus seglifinus, Lin, 435. — Blach.\i. 125. 



P..C. ^CCOJIDING to M. Du Hamch ii. 8x. is found oS Newfoundland.. 



