con. 
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I have found the young ones less than an inch in length 
y the end of May, and they require at least the second year 
to render them fit for the market. When about half grown 
they are often caught in rough ground near the land, and 
being somewhat variously coloured they have been regarded as 
a separate species, with the name of Tamlin Cod, a name 
Hhich is first mentioned by Jago, and after him by Borlase. 
he word tarn in a western dialect signifies what is short and 
stout, and IS applied to this fish because it is in full condition 
at the time when the lull-grown fish has become thin from the 
eitect of spawnini^. 
®e^®on is an excellent dish for 
dill i"’ important use of it is when it is salted and 
anecl the ordering of which is efifectcd in a different manner 
peculiarities of which this is 
e place to enter. The tongues and sounds for air-bladders) 
are also preserved in pickle, and in this condition when boiled 
hey form a very acceptable dish. The usefulness of this fish has 
ah>o been more widely extended of late by the employment 
of extracted from the liver in several diseases, in some 
we b important ren.eJy. The first notice 
nave of it as such, was in the medical works of Dr 
mentions it as prescribed for chronic rheumatism 
the Dispensary at Manchester, at the beginning of the 
present century, and since that time it has found genera! 
hccepmnce in glandular diseases among medical practitioners. 
h in England at least it has been found that this oil can 
only be extracted from the liver when the fish is in its best 
condition; for when its strength has become exhausted by the 
process of spawning, and until the recovery of its flesh, which 
s not soon effected, the liver is found in a like state of 
emaciation with the flesh, and affords no oil. We believe that 
he greater portion of what is now used is obtained from the 
that fb ^ where, however, it has been said 
waters^^ ^ ‘ 
mnrlpv which has been set on the Cod is of comparatively 
at tb ^ appear that this fish was known 
tn t ^ ^ Romans of the Empire; a circumstance 
>e explained by the fact that it was not found in the 
regular fishery appears to have been 
