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nefs near the gills, and on the back, and the black- 
nefs encreafes as they grow older. 
The fry is known by different names in different 
places: they are called at Scarborough Parrs, and 
when a year old, Billets. About nine or ten years 
ago fuch a glut of Parrs vifited that part, that for 
feveral weeks it was impoffible to dip a a into the 
fea without taking fome. 
Tho’ this fith is fo little efteemed when frefh, yet 
it is falted and dried for fale; a perfon laft year hav- 
ing cured above a thoufand at Scarborough. 
The coal fifh is of more elegant form than the 
cod fifh: they generally grow to the length of two 
feet and an half, and weigh about twenty-eight or 
thirty pounds at moft. The head is fmall; the 
under jaw a little longer than the upper: the irides 
filvery, marked on one fide with a black fpot. 
It has three dorfal fins, the firft confifts of four- 
teen, the next of twenty, the laft of twenty-two 
rays. 
The pectoral fins of eighteen ; the ventral of fix: 
the firft anal fin of twenty-two, the fecond of nine- 
teen. 
The tail is broad and forked, 
Thefe fith vary in color. We have feen fome 
whofe back, nofe, dorfal fins and tail were of a deep 
black :. the gill covers filver and black: the ventral 
and anal fins white; the belly of the fame color. 
We have feen others dufky, others brown, but in 
all the lateral line was ftrait and white, and the lower 
part of the ventral and anal fins white. 
Le VIII. The 
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