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THE HADDOCK. 
Of the fame genus, but inferior in fize, are the pouts, 
blinds, and poors. The latter is the fmalleft of the cod 
kind jet difcovered ; and it is the only one found in the 
Mediterranean. It is taken near Marfeilles , and in fuck 
quantities as fometimes to prove a nuifance. It feldocn 
exceeds fix inches in length, and is unfit either for being 
dried or falted ; if the firft is attempted, it grows as hard 
as an horn *. The whiting is the mod delicate and 
wholefome food of any of this genus ; It appears in vaft 
fhoals on our coafts in fpring, and is caught with the line* 
from one to three miles from the land. 
'The Coal-Fijh f . 
All the fpecies of the cod, which we have mentioned) 
are diftinguifhed by a barb under the lower jaw ; in th e 
coal filh this is wanting. It is of a dark cerulean blu e > 
and has from that circumftance obtained its Englijh natn e ‘ 
The eyes are large and protuberant, and the upper ja v ' f * 
which in the common cod projects beyond the lower, 111 
this fpecies is the fhortelt of the two J. 
The coal flfh frequent the rocky and deep coafts 
round this ifland, but are found in greateft plenty in c ' lC 
vicinity of the Orkneys , where their fry conftitut 6 3 
* Belon de pifcibus, p. 140. 
Colfifch Anglorum, Cefn. Gadua Carbonarius, Lin. Syft. 
$ Will. p. 168. 
