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August the 7t1i, we directed our course for Scarbo- 

 rough, and that night lodged at New Mahon, thirteen 

 miles from York. We passed by Kirkham Abbey, and 

 at a distance saw Croke Castle, and Sheriff Hutton Castle, 

 The country about York is near a level every way, for at 

 least ten miles' riding. There is at Malton a small spring 

 which seems to be of the same nature with the Knares- 

 borough spaw ; it is ill kept, and no plentiful spring. At 

 this town is a famous horse fair, kept on September the 

 29th,and for the best saddles. Here is a good house of 

 the Lord Eures. 



August the 8th, we arrived at Scarborough, distant 

 from Malton sixteen miles. This town hath a great 

 trade of fish taken thereabout. We saw ling, \Lota 

 molvai\ cod fish, [MorrJma vulgaris p\ skate, \Raia hatis; 

 thornback, \Baia clavata-] turbot, [Bliomhm maximus; 

 whiting, \Merlangus vulgaris P\ and herring, [Clupea ha- 

 rengus7\ They take also conger, [Conger vulgaris •] bret, 

 [meaning spotted, a name for the brill, Bhombus vulgaris P\ 

 haddock, [MorrJma (sglefimis ;~\ and mackrell, [Scomber 

 scomber l\ They have an artificial harbour or pier, made 

 of vast stones, piled one upon another without cement, 

 for security of their vessels of trade. The like, though 

 not so large, is at Lyme, in Dorsetshire, called the cob. 

 We observed in ling the intestina cceca, which they call 

 kelk, to be larger and fewer in number than in the cod- 

 fish. The turbot hath three large intestina ccBca a little 

 below the stomach, which is also very large. We saw 

 there among others, a long, large, cartilaginous fish, 

 which they call a hay, [or hoe, a northern name for the 

 picked dog-fish, Acanthius vulgarisi] not much unlike 

 (they say) to a dog-fish. The haddock [Morrhua (jegle- 

 finus\ is somewhat like to a whiting, [Merlangus vulgaris,^ 

 but larger ; it hath a great head, pro ratione corporis, and 

 large eyes ; it is marked about the middle of the body 

 with a black spot on each side, about the bigness of a 

 three-pence, which (they say) is the print of St. Peter's 

 thumb and fore-finger, between which he took up that 



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