254 POLLACK COD FISH. Class IV. 



g. Pollack. Asellusflavescens; GelbeKol- Gadus Pollachius. Lin. sysi. 



mulen. Schonevelde 20. 43g. Gm.Zira.ll69. 



Asellus Huitingo-Pollachius. Gronov. Zooph. No. 318. 



Wil. Ichth. 167. Faun. Suec. No. 300. 



Whiting Pollack. Rail syn. Le Lieu. Duhamel Tr. des 



pise. 53. Pesches. ii. 121. tab. 20. 



Gadus dorso tripterygio, ore Le Lieu. Block ichth. ii. 152. 



imberbi, max. inf. longiore, tab. 68. 



linea laterali curva. Arted. Le Gade Pollack. De la Ce- 



synon. 35. pede Hist, des Poissons. ii. 



416. 



XIIIS species is common on many of our 

 rocky coasts. Pollacks are seen during summer 

 in great shoals frolicking on the surface of the 

 water, and flinging themselves into a thousand 

 forms. They are at that time so wanton as to 

 bite at any thing that appears on the top of the 

 waves, and are often taken with a goose's feather 

 fixed to the hook. They are very strong, and 

 are observed to keep their station at the feet 

 of the rocks in the most turbulent and rapid sea. 

 They are a good eating fish, but do not grow to 

 a very large size ; at lest the biggest we have 

 seen did not exceed six or seven pounds : we 

 have heard of some that were taken in the sea 

 near Scarborough, which they frequent during 

 winter, that weighed near twenty-eight pounds. 

 They are there called Letts. 



