PLATE LXX. 
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"^cll-boat of a fishing smack' to London, with the view of enabling ms 
make our observations on tlie fish In its most recent state, and it 
'''as from this specimen our drawing was immediately taken. 
Our figure will render any very copious description of this fish 
superfluous, its form and colours being represented with accuracy. 
length of this specimen is twenty-five Inches. All the fins while the 
fish was recent were fleshy, and, as Mr. Low observes in his account 
*^omrnunicatcd to Mr. Pennant, the skin so thick, and the rays so 
that they could not be counted without difficulty ; but as the 
fifii dried, they appeared snlficieutly visible even in the ventral 
fins, which were thicker, and more fleshy at first than the others, 
dorsal fin contains forty-nine rays : pectoral twenty-one: 
''entral five: anal thirty-seven; and caudal thirty-five. One pecu- 
fiarity, wliich we observed in our recent specimen, was a narrow 
"'hite fillet, extending the whole way along the edge of tlie dorsal, 
^nal, and caudal fin. This, we are informed by the Scotch fishermen, 
characteristic of theTorsk ; and it is indeed observable, even in the 
halted specimens : Mr. Low speaks of this white margin, and upon tlie 
"'hole we think it right to include it in the specific character of the 
fish. The singular shape, and fleshy consistency of the ventral fins, 
IS also a strong character, but these last are invariably very badly 
expressed in all the figures of the fish that have occurred to our 
observation. 
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