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more obscure on the back than the belly, and 

 tinged with yellow. 



It is called at Scarborough a Kleg. It is a 

 very delicate fish. 



JBib & Blinds Cornubiensihis. setam producto. Arted. sy~ 5, Bib. 



Wil. Ichth. 169. non. 35. 



Asellus luscus. Raii syn. pise. Gadus luscus. Lin. syst. 437. 



54. Gm. Lin. 1163. 



Gadus dorso tripterygio, ore Le Gade Bib. De la Cepede 



cirrato, ossiculo pinnarum Hist, des Poissons, ii. 403. 



ventralium primo in longam 



X HIS species grows to the length of one foot : Descrip- 



° O TI02ST. 



the greatest depth three inches and a half. The 

 scales are large, and, so far from adhering to the 

 skin, as is asserted by naturalists, are extremely 

 deciduous. The body is deep^ the sides com- 

 pressed ; the eyes covered with a loose mem- 

 brane, which it can blow up at pleasure, like a 

 bladder ; the mouth is small ; beneath the chin 

 is a beard, an inch long. In the first dorsal fin 

 are twelve rays ; in the second, which is longest, 

 twenty-three ; in the third, twenty ; in the pec- 

 toral fins about sixteen; in the ventral six or 

 seven, of which the first and second rays are 

 long, and setaceous ; the first anal fin has 

 twenty-seven; the last twenty-one rays. The 



