Chsty; COMMON COD FISH. x7 
Genus XIX. Head fmooth. 
Seven flender branchioftegous rays. 
Body oblong ; fcales deciduous. 
All the fins covered with a common 
fkin. 
Ventral fins flender, and ending in a 
point. 
Teeth in-the jaws; and in the palate a 
feries of minute teeth clofely fet to- 
gether. Cop Fisu. 
With three dorfal fins; the chin bearded. 
I. The COMMON COD, 1S th. 
La Morue. elon. 121. Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 
Molva. Rondel. 280. cirrato, cauda exquali fere 
Molva fivemorhua altera. Ge/- ‘ cum radio primo fpinofo. 
ner pifc. 88. Arted. fynon. 35. ; 
Kablauw. Schonevelde. 18. Gadus morhua. Lin. f/f. 436. 
Afellus major vulgaris. Wil. Gronov. Zooph. No. 319. 
Icth. 165. Cabblia. Faun. juec. No 
Cod-fith, or Keeling. Razi /yn. 398. 
piles 53: 
HIS fith is found only in the northern part of 
the world; it is, as Rondeletius calls it, an 
ocean fifh, and never met with in the Mediterranean 
fea*. It affects cold climates, and feems confined 
* None (fays Captain 4rm/frong in his Hiftory of Minorca) 
of the 4/i//i or cod fifh kind, frequent our fhores, 9. 163. 
K a between 
