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report that the motion of vessels was impeded 

 by them. 



The only instance known of this singular 

 species having been drawn to our coasts was 

 in the summer of 1 806, when one was taken by 

 Dr. Turton in Swansea from the back of a 

 cod-fish. Ed. 



VARIABLE COD-FISH. P. 239, 



Doctor Turton, in the British Fauna, p. 89, 

 gives this, without hesitation, as a fish of Great 

 Britain ; he also adds another species of Gadus 

 which is frequently taken at Swansea, and which 

 he describes under the name of 



SPECKLED COD. 



He says it is of a pale brown color with 

 golden spots of white beneath, and thickly 

 covered with minute dusky specks ; the upper 

 jaw longer ; length eighteen inches ; back arch- 

 ed ; belly slightly prominent ; head large, gra- 

 dually sloping ; iris reddish, pupil black ; chin 

 with a single beard ; lateral line nearer the 

 back, curved as far as the middle of the second 



