PLATE LXX. 
Brosme. Strom, Hist, of So ndnior. v. I. p. 272. t. '1. f 19- 
Ascan. ic. rer. nat. t. 17. PontoppidaW- 
Norv. 2. p. 1788. 
1 ORSK. 2 CXll^* Pvit. tiiOol. V. 21. p, 203. sp. 8^. 
The Torsk of the Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes, is a yery 
different fish from that known in Scotland under tlie same name ; 
a circumstance that has given rise to much misunderstanding among 
English writers respecting those two fishes. The Torsk, or Dorsk, 
of the north of Europe, with the exception of Scotland only, is the 
Gadus Callarias ofLinnjEus,afishdistinguishKl in a particular manner 
from the Scotch Torsk, by having three fins upon the back, as vve 
find in onr common Codfish and Haddock, while the latter is fur- 
nished With only one dorsal fin : they are also materially distinct in 
other respects, but these are the most decisive and unerring cha- 
racters that prevail in those two species. 
1 he same name being common to both those fishes in different 
countries, it was long supposed, and admitted without further in- 
vestigation, that they must be both of the same species. Pennant, 
in an early edition of the British Zoology, was le<l into this error 
through that circumstance ; he had learnt that there existed a fisli called 
the Torsk, in the Orkneys, and northern parts of Scotland, and not 
having seen it concluded it to be of the same kind as Linnaeus describes 
under that name in his Fauna Suecica. At a subsequent period this 
mistake was corrected, on the information of Mr. Low, who sent 
Mr. Pennant the description, and drawing from which the plate was 
engraven, that appears in the last edition of the British Zoolog)'' 
