Cro L bos) Clafs IV. 
fot, 
Sa 
i) 
Three dorfal fins: chin beardlefs, 
Mil... bas; Go Gy A de oe 
Colfifch. Belon. 128. Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 
Colfifch Anglorum. Gefner pifce imberbi, maxilla inferiore 
89 longiore et linea laterali 
Afellas niger. Kolfifch, Koler. recta, Arted. fynon. 34. 
Schouewelde, 19. Gadus carbonarius. Lin. yf. 
Cole. filh’ Septentrionalium an-, 438.. Gronov. Zooph, Noa. 
glorum. Rawlin Pollack Cor- 317» 
nubienfium. Wil. pif. 168. 
« Ratt fn pifer 54. 
HE coal fith takes its name from the 
black color that it fometimes affumes. Beloz 
calls it the Colfi/ch, imagining it was fo named by’ 
the Englifh, from its producing the Icthyocol/a, but 
Gefner gives the true etimology. 
Thefe fifh are common on moft of our rocky and 
deep coafts, but particularly thofe of the north of 
Great Britain. 
Young, | Lhe young beginto appear on the York/bire coaft 
the beginning of Fuly in vaft fhoals, and are at that 
time about an inch and an half long. In Auguft 
they are from three to five inches in length, and are 
taken in great numbers with the angling rod, and are 
then efteemed a very delicate fifth, but grow fo 
coarfe when they are a year old that few people will 
eat them. Fifh of that age are from eight to fif- 
seen inches long, and begin to have a little black- 
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