plate lix. 
jat opinion, that the black or dusky colour of the 
^ ine, in addition to the little cirrus, or beard, at the lower jaw, 
fficient specific criterion of the Haddock. There is also 
^ remarkable character of the Haddock, a large square 
r. 1 ‘insky spot on each side of the bodv, near the head, or a 
kittle below thf* fir-i- i i r /• 
norsal fin, from whence, in the legends of ere- 
orion, it has been admitted to be the same fish, as St. 
^ tribute money in its mouth. The two spots 
iias ever' ' rnaik of St. Peter’s thumb and finger, which 
Hadd k ^‘n^ined impressed on the sides of the whole race of 
withom the circumstance. But the Haddock is not 
Dory b ^ reputed sanctity: the sides of the 
eing even more distinctly marked, than those of the Haddock. 
the s ec‘ on the back of this fish, the first containing In 
twenty s' examined for this purpose, fourteen rays : second, 
and eighteen rays ; pectoral fin nineteen rays, 
taini 
^ enty-two rays, the second twenty, and the tail forty-one. 
Hadlck Linnaeus in It. Wgoih, speaks of a 
an,.,k ’ twenty-three rays in tlic tail, and Bloch of 
“"Other, with twenty-seven. 
