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Its head is narrow on the fore part, the eyes large and fowie- 
what prominent ; the body fub-olivaceous above, becom 
gradually white or filvery on the belly ; the fins rather duty, 
except the ventral and pectoral, which incline to read ifk, 
and the tail in a flight ae forked. It is afifhinr uch 
efteem as ine table. 
Lov er jaw longeft ; lateral line ftraight. 
Callarias jie. Klein. Afell s ise five mollis 
Ray gue colin, Buff. Coal-jfb, Penn. 
. Brit. Tithes, 
e coal-fifh is an See of many of the rocky coafts 
of Britain, and is efpecially abundant towards the pest 
parts of the ifland, as it is alfo greg snes ba North and 
n the Pacific 
this fifh 
AR 
Gmel. 
ni gr cag 
Baltic feas, and even ‘accordin 
In diff 
older ; an 
Sich j is from about two : yee feet, the back, as dora 
fins and tail oftentimes bisa of a deep black. Under the 
pectoral fins is a black {pot : the mouth is alfo of the fame 
colour, and the tongue svery. 
cco r. Pennant, the young of this f{pecies 
warm about the Orkneys a the coaft of Yorkfhire; in 
ormer of which they Saneg 3 the chief fupport of the 
ame writer fur er ftates that the fry is known 
iffe — si eine ; at Scarborough they 
information may be correét, we cannot avoid ex expreffing our 
fufpicion that it is the fry of the falmon and not the coal-fifh 
to which Mr. Pennant alludes in ear the hiflory of the 
latter fpecies. Nothing at lea e more evident than 
that the parr of this author, and i ” hi ch he refers as the 
young of Gadus carbonarius, 1 is no other than the fry of the 
ae on. Vide Brit. Zool. ee age of the Parr, No. 
8, am figure of i Parr, plate 66. 8. 
e Linnzan character of the fifh is canes ; Bloch co 
ceives t nt ie blackne 
white lateral line fufficient to difcriminate the {pecies. The 
fixin of the coal-fifh is covered with very {m long {cales 
It has three dox - a in the firtt of layin are about fi 
teen rays, in the eighteen, and in the third twenty ; 
in the pectoral fin oak teen; ventral five ; firft anal fin twenty- 
fix; fecond twenty, and i a the tail thirty -three, befides ten 
very fhort ones on each fide; the tail is. broad and forked, 
aaa Fifhes 
cius. Beardle 
Afellus primus, Will. 
MER fs; the lawer jaw longeft. es 
a lus, lin. Hake, Penn. Dono 
Fifhes. 
is a native of the North and anna ah feas. 
It is of the oe kind, freq: venting ou ur fhores in immenfe 
fhoals during the mackarel and her erring: eee ape ans for 
the firft time in June, and then again.in September, in pur- 
fuit of thofe fifhes. The flefh of the hake, though firm and 
white, is in little efteem for its flavour, and is — eaten 
except by the lower orders of people. They are caught on 
our coafts chiefly for the purpofe of falting a ce ing them 
Vat q 
OCK-. 
On he ait of France, the hake j is alfo taken in great 
eS as is cured, as in England, for exportation. B 
of the French-writers it has been remarked, that fince 
the great naval engagement-in 1759, between the French 
and Englifh, the hake has been found in vaft numbers at all 
feafons of the year, in the fea that washes the fhores of 
NTT 
DU 
Though this - 
U 8. 
Belleifle ; ; and he conjettures that they were firft attracted 
to that {pot in particular by the uumber of dead bodies that 
cep on that memorable occa- 
of the hake on that coaft we are told meafure 
fix or feven “feet j in 
s a mott voracious fith, and befides feeding, as 
before obferved, on the mackarel and ae preys alfo on 
other fmall fifth, crabs and worms. r its carnivorous mode 
of life its teeth are TT well adapted for os fe 
merous, itrong, 
The form of this is not inelegant : the head is ine 
and rather depreffed. In the firft dorfal fin are nine rays, in 
the fecond thirty-eight ; pectoral fin fifteen a ventral 
eight ; anal thirty-fix ; and in the tail ei Sila? 
Mon is ‘Mouth bearded ; ; es 
Gadus It. Wgoth. Gadus 
cee Bloch. Lachelyopus, Klein. 
Wi Li onov. Brit. Fifhes, &c 
te refemblance to the 
Linn. 
drofo ‘dip iptery gio, mails 
Afellus longus, 
ring a remo 
The h ad is large, and obtufe; eyes with black ate and 
white iris ; th large; tongue white and ae ; body 
round, and covered with very thin fcales ; fins t the 
anal, which is cinereous,) blackifh, edged with miei, a 
a black {pot towards the end of the dorfal fins. The lin 
grows to the length of fix or feven feet, and:is taken in 
abundance in the north, where it is cured with falt, and 
re an article of exportation to the more fouthern parts 
arene: which the ling does not inhabit. 
LBID Chin with a cirrus; ree fins long; and 
bifid. Brtinn 
A fnecies about four ‘dies: in length, of a whitith colour, 
foft, oblong, and flightly comprefled. The head is pale 
fanguineous, above flattith, with the fides comprefied, and 
two {pines behind the cyes. e lower jaw fhorter, with 
even punctures beneath each fide ; teeth fmall, fharp, and 
crowded ; ; eyes large with the iris white ; lateral line ftraight 5 ; 
firft dorfal fin fr a es blackifh at t e aaa ene whitth, 
" fpotted with black, the edge an ack ; anal 
whitifh, the pofteri ior ie black ; ai foun and blackith. 
A native of the Mediterranean 
“Tau. Bearded; gill-covers three-{pined ; firft dorfal fia 
with three rays. ‘Gm Gadus tau 3 -cirris plurimis, Bloch. - 
Deicribed by Dr. Garden as a native of Carclina, and 
where, according to that obferver of nature, it is called the 
toad-fifh. ne body is fmooth and mucous, above brown, 
beneath whitifh; back and fins {potted with white, and 
covered with foft, thin, very fmall, ue {cales of a rounded 
form, and edged with white. is large and broad ; 
the eyes vertical and large, with ne pupil black and iris 
olden; and on each fide a double row of mall tubercles : 
between them and the nape a cavity and tran{verfe yellow 
ftreak ; palate each fide with a double row of tecth, upper 
jaw with many, lower only two rows of fharp uneven teeth ; 
cirri numerous, on the lower jaw only, and difpofed in a 
femilunar manner, Gill-covers of two pieces, the membrane 
large and loofe. ‘The peCtoral and ventral fins are pointed, 
the 
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