Th HADDOCK 
Is, according to the Artedian fyftem, of the genus of Gadi. 
It is called by Salvian the Afellus Major, or Greater Afellus, 
and by Turner and Willoughby the Orus, or Afinus of the 
Ancients. Cliarlton tells us, that it was the Callaris Galeris, 
or Galaxis, of the old Romans, mentioned by Pliny; but 
Artedi has fome doubt about that. It is likewife called by 
Artedi the Gadus; with a bearded mouth, three fins on the 
back, a whitifh bedy, with the upper jaw longeft; the tail a 
little forked. Large Haddocks begin to be in roe about the. 
middle of November, and continue fo till the end of January ; 
from that time till May, their tails grow thin, and they are 
out of feafon. . 
The {mall ones are very good from May to February; and 
thofe which are not old enough to breed in February, March, 
and April. It is faid by fifhermen, that in rough weather 
they hide themfelves in the fand at the bottonr of the fea, and. 
among the ooze, and fhelter themfelves till the ftorm is over, 
becaufe they take none in ftormy weather. They live in the 
fummer on young Herrings, and on other young fith; and in: 
winter, on a f{pecies of fefpula, called the ftone-coated Worm, 
and by the fifhermen, Haddock-meat. The great fhoals of 
Haddocks 
