doree. 
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f"T “mq uncertain. However this may be, I find 
1 nee took place then, which is much complained of by a 
country gentleman. »The variety of sea fish,’’ says he «wLch 
ur evanciers had m great plenty and very cheap, is in our 
the'n an°“'-r'ri dear, never cheap but 
when an accidental glut of Whitings and Macrell come in 
Job V' '^‘^luable fish, as Cod 
n ory s, they are seldom seen, and when they are, come’ 
extravagantly dear, and ye Cod never good or fifm. Dorys 
memb ,hem at 2|d. since his time,) are now two shilling 
or half-a-crown a good one.” On the other hand it has been 
a misfortune to fishermen that considerable numbers have not 
maintained a corresponding value. On one occasion in the 
utumn more than sixty were hauled on shore in a ground- 
an, and some of them of large size. Yet the whole were 
la ger Lroff ’'"®” T'' “ *= 
The he. ^ f r" “‘'‘™ “sellier, irith email profit. 
The he,«est example I h,™ obtamerl information of weighed 
^SnrrTh' inle. 
Wr 1 f ^ compressed, oval; older 
individuals proportionally longer than the younger. Head 
arge, sloping from the eyes to the upper lip. ofpe wide _ 
jaws capable of extensive motion and protrusion; teeth in both- 
upper hp formed of loose dense membrane folded across. Eyes’ 
moderately large, high on the head; nostrils close before them 
A furrow from the upper lip to the first dorsal fin. Scales 
very small Lateral line curved. Two dorsal fins, sometimes 
connected by a membrane, the first with strong spines tipped 
with soft processes, which are sometimes of great length. 
econd dorsal and second anal opposite each other; the first 
anal ivith four strong crooked spines. Pectoral fins small and 
round,- ventrals large and long. Caudal fin round, and at its 
oot the body becomes almost square. At the angle of the 
ower jaw a strong spine; each side of the body, along the 
roo s of the dorsal and anal fins, and also along the belly a 
row of stout spines, which at the root of the second dorsal 
flat-pointed spines at the back 
vop. n ^ pectoral 
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