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The firft dorfal fin has eleven rays, the middle 
nineteen, the laft fixteen: the tail is alittle forked. 
The color of the back is dufky, of fome inclin- 
_.ing to green: the fides beneath the lateral line 
marked with lines of yellow; the belly white. 
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Secunda afelloram  fpecies. Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 
Rondel. 276. imberbi corpore albo, max- 
Merlanus. Rondel. Ge/ner pifc. iJla fuperiore longiore. Ar- 
85. ted. fynon. 34. . 
Afellus candidus primus, Wit- Gadus merlangus. Lin. fpf. 
ling. Schonevelde, 17. 438. Gronov. Looph. No. 316. 
Afellus mollis major, feu al- Hwitling, Widding. Faun /uece 
bus. Wil. Icth. 170. No. 310, 
Whiting. ce Syn pife. 55+ 
HIITINGS appear in vaft fhoals on our 
feas in the fpring, keeping at the diftance 
of about half a mile to that of three from the fhore. 
They are caught in vaft numbers by the line, and 
afford edie diverfion. 
They are the moft delicate as well as the mon 
wholefome of any of the genus, but do not grow to 
a large fize ; the biggeft we ever faw * not er ctdine 
twenty inches, but es is very uncommon, the ufual 
leneth being ten or twelve. . 
it is a fifh of an elegant make: the upper fe is 
the longeft; the eyes large, the nofe fharp, the 
teeth of the upper jaw long, and appear over the 
lower when clofed. 
* We have been informed that whitings, from four to eight 
pounds in weight, have been taken i in the “deep water at the edge 
of the Dogger-Bank. 
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