The UMA LT ING 
Is, in Icthyology, the Englifh name of a common fifh of the 
Afellus kind, called by fome Afellus Mollis, and by others 
Afellus Albus, or Merlangus. It is certainly, according to 
the Artedian fyftem, one of the Gadi; diftinguifhed by that | 
author by the name of Gadus with three fins on the backs 
without beards, with a white body; the upper jaw long than 
the lower. 
The Whiting, or Gadus Melangus of Linnzus, has a very 
elegant form: its eyes are large, its nofe fharp; the teeth of 
the upper jaw are very long, and appear above the lower 
when clofed. The frft dorfal fin has fifteen rays, the fecond 
eighteen, and the laft twenty. The head and back are of a 
pale brown colour; the lateral line white and crooked; the 
belly and fides filvery; the fides being marked lengthways 
with yellow. 
They appear in the fea, by large fhoals, in the {pring, keep- 
ing at the diftance of about half a mile to that of three 
miles from the fhore. They are the moft delicate and whole- 
fome of any of the genus, and feldom grow to more than ten 
or twelve inches in length, 
