I|^ Conger. Class IV. 



people therefore prefer the fmalleil, pofTibly be- 

 caufe they are fooneil cured. During the procefs 

 there is a confiderable flench ; and it is faid that 

 in the fifhing villages the poultry are fed with the 

 maggots that drop from the fifh. 



The Portuguefe and Spaniards ufe thofe dried 

 congers after they have been ground into a powder^ 

 to thicken and give a relifli to their foups. We 

 think they are fold for about forty fhillings the 

 quintal, which weighs one hundred and twenty-fix 

 pounds. 



A frfhery of congers would be of great advan- 

 tage to the inhabitants of the Hebrides. Perhaps 

 they would at firfl undertake it with repugnancy^ 

 from their abfurd averfion to the eel kind. 



Blunt 



