GADUS. 
fometimes even twelve or fourteen pounds. Schoneveld 
{peaks of one four feet lon 
The fpawning feafon is in January and February. The 
fleth i is white, tender, and well flavoure The Icelanders 
take itin great plenty, ‘and falt and dry it it as an article o 
‘commerce. When thus prepared they give it the name of 
Litieling. Thi is fifh is known under various denominations in 
Tar, and the Laplan 
eneral colour of this fifh i Ng cinereous above, and 
white eu the former {potted with brow Ay and fome- 
times in the young fifh with orange 5 the upper jaw is longer 
an the lower, ana the tip of the lower jaw furnifhed with 
Mornva. ‘Tail fomewhat a s firft anal ray fpi- 
‘nous. Linn. Cadliau, Strom. dus ane majoribus, 
Bloch. ries Bellon. Ron 
Mdoa vel ae ua, 
bate ec ‘Ty I]. Ray. . Dono . Fill 
od Pes to the length of fos or ‘live — and. 
fometanes rather more. 
palate armed with numerous fharp teeth. - The colour of 
the body ea Sse to the age of t n 
general. cinereou ck and fides, and een me 
or lefs cenfpienouly with dull yellow. The lateral tie 
broad ke whiti 
. Sm or fithes, Gabe ee worms, of various kinds, are 
the chief ‘food of the co t is a creature of moft vora- 
cious appetite, frequently preying on its own {pecies, and 
its digettion fo powerful, as to dillolve many of the harder 
fubitances which it devours. Stones or pebbles are fre- 
and thefe it is fuppofed to 
{wallow to allay hunger, by retaining the omach in a. 
diftended form. It is a highly prolific fifh, nearly a million 
- Britain and Ireland, the principal are thofe carried on upon 
. the banks of Newfoundland, the concerns of which are truly 
prodigious. They are taken only with the hook and line ; 
_and being eured, or falted, and dried upon the f{pot, are thence 
tranfported to the continent of Europe. See Cod eae 
JEGLEFINUS. Whitifh; tail forked ; "Bal r jaw longett. 
Linn. Gadus kolia, It. Sota. Zi glefinus, Bellon. Allis 
| ve Haddock, Will. Donov, § 
we ght. 
than in oie of its tribe; the eyes large, with black pupil 
and iris. filvery. Its colour is rale-greyifh, tinged with 
brown above, and filvery-white beneath; the lateral line 
nearer the back, and of a black colour, and the fins partak- 
ing of a tinge of blueifh-grey. There are three fins on the 
back of this fifh; the firit containing about fourteen rays, 
the fecond twenty-fix sale and the third eighteen ; 3 in the 
firft of the two anal fins 
twenty, and in the tail eons thirty to 
_° fdt certain feafons of the year, the bactocks affemble to. 
ries of céd in the north of — 
phate es in the fecond: 
gether i in immenfe fho dis in the northern oe id sade a 
o their annual migration to the Aine ourfe of 
which they vifit the coafts of the — time 
after their appearance in the German fea, they ate equally 
abundant upon. the coaft of Sweden, oa and Holland, 
and on the fhores of Britain ; but aft r pafling down the 
channel to the fouthward, as far as the coaft of 
ovember, or oe ginning of  Deseaben, it never enters 
e Mediterranean ; neit ither does it < appear in the Baltic, or 
even pafs the —— ae a that fea : 
markets on o 
being fapplied. with the haddock oi the fifhermen, who 
ta fe them in vaft qu lantities in the fea, : 
The haddocks are in full roe at the i 
en our coaft in December, nature having dire 
feck a milder wen than that which eae ae in fum 
ocks of a large fize are only efteemed good a the 
ble during the winter ; thofe of a {mall fize, before they 
in perfeCtion at all times ; 
ult alfo yield in the excellence of eels pice 
however, think it preferable. Whe 
the cod, the haddock is by no means indifferent © 
n the firft approach or appearance of a fons the 
haddocks fink to the bottom of the fea, to feek thelter till 
when they again appear near the 
return of: fine weather, they are obferved to 
ve ee ck foiled with mud, or fea-weeds, and other 
In - 
lower jaw, is a fufficien t fpecific eitecon of oe ae 
There is alfo another very remarkable character of the had- 
dock, a large fquare, or dufky fpot, on each fide of the body, 
near the head, or a little below the firft dorfal fin, from 
whence, i in the legends of credulous devotion, it has been ad- 
itted to be the ve ter caught with the 
- ‘bute mony in its mo uth. 
pearance aaa on the fides-of the whole 
ci ance. it may be 
added, that the | k is not without a rival a the re- 
uted proof of fanétit the dory: being even 
more dittinétly marked than thofe of the haddock. -Donov. 
Brit. Fifhes, pl. 
anpatus. Lower jaw with feven ponduee each fae. 
Linn. Gadus corpore lato, ee Afellus latus Li a i Will. 
Whiting pout, Donov. Br. Fifhes, &c. 
A marine fifh, confined to a northern pars of irons e, 
and which rarely exceeds the length of eighteen inches, 
The body is white ; the back tinged with brown ; the head 
fmall; mouth large; upper jaw longer ; teeth very {mall, 
and in both jaws; lips cartilaginous, and connected by a 
common 
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