Class IV. LING, 197 



Xing, Lingiifche. Belon, 130. fyn.pifc. 56.^ S5. Ling^ 



Gefner pifc. 95. "Gadus dorfo dipterygo, ore 



Molva major C/^^r/f /OK ^;v./z/2-. ferrato, maxilla fuperiore 

 ^. longiore. Arted, Jynon, 360 



Afellus longus, eine Leng€. Gadus molva. Lin, fyfi. 439. 



Schone'velde, 18. Langa. /4^«. *S«^f. No. 313. 



Ling. Wil, Icth. 175. Roll 



THE ling takes its name from its lengthy 

 being corrupted from the word long. It 

 abounds about the Sally IJles^ on the coafts of Scar- 

 horough, and thofe of Scotland and Ireland^ and 

 forms a confiderable article of commerce *. 



In the Torkjhire feas they are in perfection from 

 the beginning of February to the beginning of 

 May^ and fome till the end of that month. In 

 June they fpawn, depodting their eggs in the fofc 

 oozy ground of the mouth of the ^ees : at that 

 time the males feparate from the females, and refort 

 to fome rocky ground near Flamhorough Head^ 

 where the fifhermen ' take great numbers without 

 ever finding any of the female or roed £lh among 

 them. 



While a ling is in feafon its liver is very white, ^^"•' 

 and' abounds with a fine flavored oil j but as foon 



* This branch of trade was coniiderable fo long ago as 

 the reign of Ednj^ard III. an ad for regulating the price of 

 l^ob^ Lin^i and Cc^, being made ijihis3iri: year» 



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