Gast DESSER HA KE 159 
We place it in this genus, as it has more the appear- 
ance of the cod-fifh kind, the hake efpecially, than 
of the Blenuy, into which genus Linneus has flung 
it; we therefore have given this fpecies the name of 
the Leffer Hake. 3 
The length of one that was taken on the Flintfbire 
fhores was eleven inches and an half, its greateft depth 
three inches ; but according to Doctor Borla/e, fome 
erow to be above cighteen inches lone. , 
The head floped down to the nofe in the fame 
eafy manner with others of this genus: the mouth 
large: befides the teeth in the jaws was a triangu- 
lar congeries of fmall teeth in the roof of the - 
mouth. 
At the end of the lower jaw was a fmall beard. 
The firft dorfal fin was triangular; the firft ray ex- 
tended far beyond the reft, and was very lender : the 
fecond fin began juft behind the firft, and extended 
almoft to the tail: the ventral fins were three inches 
long, and confifted of only two rays, joined at the 
bottom, and feparated or bifurcated towards the 
end: the vent was in the middle of the body: the 
anal fin extended from thence juft to the tail: the 
jateral line was incurvated: the tail was rounded. 
The color was a cinereous brown. 
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