Class IV. HA K E. ^^i 



The color of the head and back is a pale brown ; 

 the lateral line white, and is crooked ; the belly and 

 fides filvery \ the laft ftreaked lengthways with yel- 

 low. 



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With only two dorfal fins. 



Le Merluz. Belon^ 115. Gadus dorfo dipterygio, max- ^5. Hake, 



Afellus, "o'jQi^i 6vi(THo^. Rondel. ilia inferiore longiore. j^r- 



zyz. ted.fynon. 36. 



Merluclus. Gefner pifc. 84. Gadus Merlucius. Lin, fyfi, 



Afellus primus five Merlu- 439. Faun. Suec. No. 314, 



cius. Wil. Icth. 174. GronoiK Zooph, No. 315, 

 The Hake. Raiijyn. pifc. 



A FISH that is found in vaft abundance on ma- 

 ny of our coafts, and of thofe of Ireland, 

 There was formerly a vaft ftationary fifhery of Hake 

 on the Nymph Bank off the coaft of Waterford^ im- 

 menfe quantities appearing there twice a year ; the 

 firft flioal coming in June., during the Mackrel fea- 

 fon. the other in September^ at the beginning of 

 the Herring feafon, probably in purfuit of thofe 

 fiih: it was no unufual thing for fix men with 

 hooks and lines to take a thoufand Hake in one 

 night, befides a confiderable quantity of other iifh. 

 Thefe were falted and fent to Spain^ particularly 



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