PLATE LXX. 
Mr. Low was then minister of Birsa In the Orkneys, and in m4, 
itndertook the voyage of Shetland at the request of Mr. Pennant. 
This gentleman was enabled, from his own immediate observations, 
determine that the Torsk of the Swedes is not the Torsk of the 
Scotch, which renders his remarks not a little interesting. The 
Torsk it seems, from his account, or as it is called in the Shetlands, 
Tusk and Brismak *, is a northern fish, which as yet has not been 
discovered lower to the southward than the Orknies, and is even 
rather scarce there. In the seas about Shetland it swarms, and forms 
cither dried, or salted and packed in barrels, a considerable article of 
Commerce. 
Strom, a Norwegian clergyman, in his History of Sondmor, 
Speaks to the same effect : he informs us in the north it is called 
fitosme ; and being found in great plenty in the seas adjacent to 
Sondmor, it constitutes an article of extensive trade there, either salted 
tind barrelled, or dried. His specifical defcriptlon of Brofme is in latin 
^adus Monopterygius, ove cifroso, caudci ctmU acuta, and a figure 
cf the fish, veiy well agreeing with this description, is given in the 
tttiscellaneous plate that accompanies the first volume. 
There arc three different varieties of the Danish Torsk in the works 
cf Ascanlus, all which agree with the Linnrean description of Gadus 
Callarias. According to Ascanius these are all well known to the 
l^anish fishermen by the name of Torsk, and to the Germans by 
*^at of Dorsk : they are taken in abmrdance in the sea between the 
island of Borhholm and the north of Bergen, in the Categat, and the 
Perhaps corrupted from BrosTnCf its Norwegian name. 
