i 
plate cir. 
Ling i. 
,»»nt,l,es of ., bmg ,.l,ed o„d cured for errporBUon, be.ider what 
IS consumed fresh by the inhabhanfc u 
narr, nf R V , ^ habitants. It appears m the southern 
parts of B„,..„ only aoout Spring. I„ p„i„, of j 
™ unlihe the Cod Hsh, hut is longer i„ proportion t andft is 
from.h,s cncu™s«„cc ,t derives its name, Ling being only a cor- 
niption of Long, or Long fish. ^ 
t 
lenrh of '7 “ '» 1- 
S ve, SIX, or even seven fcetr those of three or four feet 
rn lengd. are by no means uncomnron. They feed on crabs and 
.her crustac^us ammals, and are in d.e highest season from the 
month of February tiU May: in J„„e 
menca. atwhrch tune it approaches the shore and deposits iB eggs 
m moist ground, near the entrance of rivers. The colour of the 
the fish but in general they are paler than in d,e common Cod-fish • 
when first Biten out of the water dre head. bach, und sides L 
nearly IB white.. he belly, but become darher from exposure to 
thisll T I " '■‘“•fior of 
fish. In the specimen we have delineated. ,h. firs, dorsal fin 
«ns thirteen rays, the second fifty-six: pectoral fins twenty: ve„. 
tral SIX : anal fifiy-three . and the tail thirty-m-ne 
