PLATE XXVIII. 
m 1759, between the French and English, the Hake has been 
^°un<l in vast numbers at all seasons of the year, in the sea that 
''ashes the shores of Belle-isle. He conjectures that they were at 
first attracted principally to this spot, by the number of dead bodies 
fi'at vt'ere here committed to the deep. Some of the Hake on that 
'^oast, we are told, measure six or seven feet in length. 
The Hake is a most voracious fish, and feeds on the Mackrel and 
^^erring, as before observed : it feeds also on other small fish ; on 
'^rabs and worms. For its carnivorous mode of life its teeth are 
Perfectly well adapted : tliey are numerous, strong, sharp, and much 
^acurvcd, which gives it no small degree of advantage in securing its 
The eggs found in the body of the female are of an orange 
r>lour, and about the size of a grain of millet, as ichthyologists have 
fiefore mentioned. 
The form of this fish is not inelegant : thread is long, and ratiter 
pressed. In the first dorsal fin are nine rays ; in the second, thirty- 
; pectoral fin fifteen rays : ventral eight : anal thirty-six : and in 
tail, eighteen. 
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