Class. IV H A D O C K. iS 



after a florm are covered with mud on their backs. 



In fummer they live on young herrings and other Food. 

 fmali lifh; in winter on the (tone-coated worms*, 

 which the fifhermen call hadock meat. 



The grand fhoal of hadocks comes periodically 

 on the Torkjhire coafts. It is remarkable that they 

 appeared in 1766 on the loth of December^ and 

 exadlly on the fame day in 1767 : thefe fnoals ex- 

 tended from the ihore near three miles in breadth, 

 and in length from Flamhorough head to ^inmouth 

 caftle, and perhaps much farther northwards. An 

 idea may be given of their numbers by the follow- 

 ing fadl : .three filhermen, within the diftance of a 

 mile from Scarborough harbour, frequently loaded 

 their coble or boat with them tv/ice a-day, taking 

 each time about a ton of fifh : when they put down 

 their lines beyond the diftance of three miles from 

 the ihore, they caught nothing but dog fifb, which 

 fhows how exadlly thefe fifh keep their limits. 



The bed hadocks were fold from eightpence to 

 a fhilling per fcore, and the poor had the fmaller 

 fort at a penny, and fometimes a halfpenny per 

 fcore f. 



The large hadocks quit the coaft as foon as they 



* A fpecies of Serpula* 

 f Here Mr. Tra'vis, to whom I am much obliged for a moft 

 accurate account of the Torkfiire filh, with great humanity 

 projeds an inland navigation, to convey at a cheap and eafy 

 method, thofe gifts of Providence to the thoufands of poor 

 mjyiufafturers who inhabit the dillant parts of that vafl county. 



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