156 H A K i. Clafs IV. 
The firft dorfal fin has fifteen rays, the fecond 
eighteen, the laft twenty. 
The color of the head and back is a pale brown ; 
the lateral line white, and is crooked ; the belly 
and fides filvery ; the laft ftreaked lengthways with 
yellow. 
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With only two dorfal fins. 
Be ie Ane on SE UA aR ee 
Le Merluz. Belon. 11 Se Gadus dorfo dipterygio, max- 
Afellus, dvos, dvicxos. Rondel. illa inferiore longiore. 4r- 
ted. fynon. 30. 
272. 
Merineras. Gefner pife. 84. Gadus Merlucius. Lia. fpf. 
Afellus primus five Merlucius. 439- Faun. fuec. No. 314. 
Wil. Tcth. 174. Gronov. Zooph. No. 315. 
The Hake. Raii fn. pife. 
FISH that is found in vaft abundance on 
_ many of our coafts, and of thofe of Ireland. 
There was formerly a vaft ftationary fifhery of Hake 
on the Nymph Bank off the coaft of Waterford, im- 
menfe quantities appearing there twice a year; the 
firft fhoal coming in Fune, during the Mackrel fea- 
fon, the other in September, at the beginning of the 
Herring feafon, probably in purfuit of thofe fifh: it 
was no unufual thing for fix men with hooks and 
lines to take a thoufand Hake in one night, befides a. 
confiderable quantity of other fifh. Thefe were falted 
and fent to Spain, particularly to Bilboa. * We are 
* Smith's Lift. Waterford, 261. 
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