Clafs IV. T O R/S) ee 343. 
II. The OD SOP RY she 2) RS 
Afellus varius vel ftriatus, Gadus callarias. G. triptery- 
Dorfch, Pamuchelen. Scho- gius, cirratus varius, cauda 
nevelde, 19. Wil. Icth. 172. integra, maxilla fuperiore 
Raii fyn. pile. 54. longiore. Lin. yf. 436. 
Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore Torfk, Faun. fuec. No» 
cirrato, colore vario, max- 307. 
illa fuperiore longiore, cauda 
zequali. Arted. /ynon}35. 
\HESE fith are found in great quantities in 
the Baltic, and the northern feas, particularly 
in Braffa Sound*, and about the Orkney Ifles, and are 
fuppofed never to wander into the more fouthern 
feas. | 
It is a fifh much efteemed for its delicacy ; the 
meat divides into flakes on being boiled, like that 
of a falmon: for which reafon, as Schonevelde tells 
us, the Germans call it Schetbendor{ch. 
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ee 
It never grows to a large fize, the greateft not 
exceeding thirty inches**, 
"The head is fmall: the upper jaw isa litrle longer 
than the lower: in the firft the teeth are difpofed in 
a fingle row; in the upper in feveral. In the roof 
of the mouth is a rough triangular bone: at the end 
of the lower jaw is a {mall beard. 
Between the head and the firft dorfal fin is a deep 
groove. 
* Where it is called Tue. Martin’s Weft. Tiles. 385. 
** We find this account of its length in the M. S. Journal 
of the late Bifhop of Meath, Dottor Richard Pocock; but we 
believe it is very feldom they are found {0 large. 9 
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