nis Opisthomi and Anacanthini 
Nathaniel Atwood of Provincetown records one with the weight 
of 160 pounds. 
According to Dr. Goode: 
“In the western Atlantic the species occurs in the winter in 
considerable abundance as far south as the mouth of the Chesa- 
peake Bay, latitude 37°, and stragglers have been observed 
about Ocracoke Inlet. The southern limits of the species may 
be safely considered to be Cape Hatteras, in latitude 35° 10’ 
Along the coast of New England, the Middle States, and British 
North America, and upon all the off-shore banks of this region, 
cod are found usually in great abundance, during part of the 
year at least. They have been observed also in the Gulf of 
Bothnia, latitude 70° to 75°, and in the southeastern part of 
Baffin’s Land to the northward of Cumberland Sound, and it 
is more than probable that they occur in the waters of the Arctic 
Sea to the north of the American continent, or away around 
to Bering Strait.”’ 
Dr. Gill says: 
“The ocean banks of moderate depths are the favorite 
resorts of the cod, but it is b, no means confined to those 
localities. The fish, indeed, occasionally enters into fresh, 
or at least brackish, water. According to Canadian authorities, 
it is found ‘well up the estuary of the St. Lawrence, though 
how far up is not definitely stated, probably not beyond the 
limits of brackish water.’ Even as far south as the Delaware 
River it has been known to enter the streams. Dr. C. C. Abbott 
records that in January, 1876, ‘a healthy, strong, active cod- 
fish, weighing nearly four pounds, was taken in a draw-net 
in the Delaware River near Trenton, New Jersey; the stomach 
of the fish showed that it had been in river-water several days. 
Many of them had been taken about Philadelphia between 
1856 and 1869.’ 
“The cod ranks among the most voracious of ordinary 
fishes, and almost everything that is eatable, and some that 
is not, may find its way into its capacious maw. Years ago, 
before naturalists had the facilities that the dredge now affords, 
cods’ stomachs were the favorite resort for rare shells, and some 
species had never been obtained otherwise than through such 
a medium, while many filled the cabinet that would not other- 
