244 HADOCK COD FISH. Class IV. 



down their lines beyond the distance of three 

 miles from the shore, they caught nothing but 

 dog fish, which shows how exactly these fish 

 keep their limits. The best hadocks were sold 

 from eightpence to a shilling per score, and the 

 poor had the smaller sort at a penny, and some- 

 times a halfpenny per score. * The large ha- 

 docks quit the coast as soon as they go out of 

 season, and leave behind great plenty of small 

 ones. It is said that the large ones visit the coasts 

 of Hamburgh and Jutland in the summer. 



It is no less remarkable than providential, 

 that all kinds of fish (except mackrel) which 

 frequent the Yorkshire coast, approach the 

 shore, and as if it were offer themselves to us, 

 generally remaining there as long as they are in 

 high season, and retire from us when they be- 

 come unfit for use. 



It is the commonest species in the London 

 markets. 

 Descrip- They do not grow to a great bulk, one of 

 fourteen pounds being of an uncommon size, 

 but those are extremely coarse ; the best for the 

 table weighing from two to three pounds. The 



* Here Mr. Travis, to whom I am much obliged for a most 

 accurate account of the Yorkshire fish, with great humanity pro- 

 jects an iuland navigation, to convey at a cheap and easy method, 

 those gifts of Providence to the thousands of poor manufacturers 

 who inhabit the distant parts of that vast county. 



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