bleak and frozen countries, that are unfit for the produc- 
tion of grain. The ichthyophagi of thefe barren regions, 
fays he, not only furnifii themfelves with a fubftitute 
for bread, by drying this fifii, but fend a vail quan- 
tity of their furplus ftores to add to the fupply of other 
nations *. The numbers and fertility of thefe filh, fee" 1 
indeed amply to juftify the grateful exultations of this 
writer ; for they are fuch as will forever baffle all the 
efforts of man, and the voracity of the inhabitants of th 3 
ocean, to exterminate their race ; and will fecure to every 
age an inexhauftible fupply of wholefome provifion. 
The cod is a filh fo well known, that it requires not 
any particular defeription ; the colour, which is common- 
ly finereous, and fpotted with yellow on the back a 1 ' 1 ' 
fides, varies much according to the age and refidence 01 
the animal. 
The Ha clod f. 
This fpecies appears upon thecoafisof BritaiA annual!) * 
particularly thofe of York/hire, about the middle of D e 
cember, and in fuch vaft flioals, that they cover a tr^ 
frequently of many miles. They do not venture i ,f 
from the fliore ; when the fifliermen call their lines h>- 
‘leS 
yond their limits, which is commonly about three m 1 ^ 
* Vide Schonf. apud Willough, page 166. 
f Gadus iElglefinus. Lin. Syft. Tcrtia afellorura fpecicr. 
