Class IV. TORS ^. 203 



whicifh. They grow to the fame fize as the for- 

 mer. 



The Cornijh fifhermen are faid to whiille, and 

 make ufe of the words Bod^ Bod, vean, when they 

 are defirous of taking this filh, as if by that they 

 facilitated the capture. In the fame manner the 

 Sicilian filhermen repeat their Mamafu di pajanu^ 

 &c. ' when they are in purfuit of the Svjord Fijh *. 



* * With only one dorfal fin. 



* 



THIS fifh has been hitherto fuppofed to be of ^9* '^°^'''' 

 the fedion of this genus, which has three 

 dorfal fins. The fpecies known in Sweden hj that 

 name is included in that divifion ; and as fuch I 

 defcribed it in the. former edition from the account 

 luinnaus has given us. But from the information of 

 the Rev. Mr. Low, minifter of Birfa, Orkney, who 

 in 1774, made (at my requeft) the voyage of the 

 Shetland iflands, I find the Britijh 'Torjk to be to- 

 tally different j and will occafion the addition of a 

 fourth divifion in this genus. 



The 'TorJk is defcribed and engraven in Mr. 

 Stromas hiftory of Smdmoer, under the fame name, f 



* Vide p. 162. 



t Eller Torjky p, 272. tab, I, fig. 19. and when dried, 

 KUp-JiJh. 



The 



