138 COMMON COD FISH. ClafsIVv. 
between the latitudes 66 and 50: what are caught 
north and fouth of thofe degrees being either on in 
ee or bad in quality. ‘The Greenland fith are 
{mail and emaciated thro’ want of food, being very 
voracious, and having in thofe feas a dearth of pro- 
vifion. 
This locality of fituation is common to many 
other fpecies of this genus, moft of them being in- 
habitants of the cold feas, or fuch that lie within 
zones that can juft clame the title of temperate. 
There are neverthelefs certain fpecies found near the 
Canary Iflands, called Cherny*, of which we know 
no more than the name; but according to the un- 
fortunate Captain Glas, are better tafted than the 
Newfoundland kind. 
The great rendezvouz of the cod fifh is on the 
Banks of Newfoundland, and the other fand banks 
that lie off the coafts of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 
and New England. ‘They prefer thofe fituations, by 
reafon of the quantity of worms produced in thofe 
{andy bottoms, which tempt them to refort there for 
food: but another caufe of the particular attach- 
ment the fifh have to thefe fpots, is their vicinity to 
the polar feas, where they return to fpawn; there 
they depofe their roes in full fecurity, but want of 
food forces them, as foon as the firft more fouthern 
feas are open, to repair thither for fubfiftence. 
Few are taken north of Jceland, but on the fouth 
and weft coafts they abound: they are again found 
to fwarm on the coafts of Norway, in the Baltic, off 
the Orkney and the Weftern Ifles; after which their 
* Hift. Canary Ilands, 198. 
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