270 TORSK COD FISH. Class IV. 



that name is included in that division ; and as 

 such I described it in the former edition from 

 the account Linnceus has given us. But from 

 the information of the Rev. Mr. Low, minister 

 of Birsa, Orkney, who in 1774, made (at my 

 request) the voyage of the Shetland islands, I 

 find the British Torsk to be totally different ; 

 and will occasion the addition of a fourth divi^ 

 sion in this genus. 



The Torsk is described and engraven in Mr. 

 Strom's history of Sondmoer, under the same 

 name, and when dried, under that of Klip Jish. 

 The figure agrees with that Mr. Low favored 

 me with. 



The Torsk, or, as it is called in the Shetlands, 

 Tusk and Brismak, is a northern fish ; and as 

 yet undiscovered lower than about the Orknies, 

 and even there it is rather scarce. In the seas 

 about Shetland, it swarms, and forms (barrelled 

 or dried) a considerable article of commerce. 

 Descrip- The length of the specimen, Mr. Low de- 

 scribed for me, was twenty inches, the greatest 

 depth four and a half. The head small, the 

 upper jaw a little longer than the lower ; both 

 jaws furnished with multitudes of small teeth; 

 on the chin was a small single beard ; from the 

 head to the dorsal fin was a deep furrow. The 

 dorsal fin began within six inches from the tip of 



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