PLATE LXX. 
arisen from the condition of the Fish at the time they describe It ; the 
tail of this Fish, wlien alive or very recent, being certainly rounded, 
ut becoming somewhat pointed as it dries In our specimen it is 
*0 : m Pennant's figure it is the same, and so also in that of Asca- 
nius ; we cannot therefore upon the whole but be Inclined to think 
that the figure In Strom, and Miiller's description, were taken from 
the dried fish rather than from recent subjects. 
Although the Brosme, or Scotch Torsk, swarms In the North 
eas. It IS scarcely ever seen more to the southward of Britain tlian 
Caithness, m Scotland, and even there very seldom f. It is some- 
times brought from Shetland to London for sale, with other salt-fish, 
n this state it is without the head, that part being taken off previous 
o sa ting; but It is easily distinguished from other salt-fish even 
then by its single dorsal fin. Some short time ago a friend, who had 
an opportunity of visiting Shetland and the Orknies, obliged us with 
a specimen of this interesting fish, which was brought alive in the 
* This .singularity may be explained «ith liule difficulty: the tail like 
rrr 
0 conceal a great measure the number and situation of the rays that lie within 
u m drying, tins fleshy skin perishes, or shrinks so materially, as to leave the ray 
aW bare: the tail thus divested of its fleshy skiu, assumes the more pointed for« 
they IppI “T" 
they appear so only m a very slight degree in the receut fish. 
t Ihe Torsk, we arc informed in the Swansea Guide has l,een r a 
of Glanmro , I ' • o . ’ “ “ *6 
01 Ulamorganshire, in South Wales, most likelv 
calls itGadwO M ■ . ^ erroneous authority; the writer 
It Gadus Callarias, but no doubt moans the Torsk of Fnvii I, u 
Biosmel vu n T, English authors, our (Gadus 
osrae). KWe Donovan’s Tour t/i„„g4 South Wuks, Vol. H. p. ,o8. 
