THE FIVE-BEARDED COD. 
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oave particular cant phrafes, by which they imagine they 
charm thefe fifties, which they repeat in the fame mariner 
that the Sicilians do their mamaffu di pajunu , &c. when 
they are in purfuit of the fword-fith *. 
The <s IorJk . 
We have already feen the fillies of this genus, polTeffing, 
hjuie three, others two dorfal fins ; the fifli now under 
°bfervation is an inhabitant of the Orkney fcas ; and from 
having only one dorfal fin, forms a clafs diftinft from 
both. It is called by the inhabitants of Orkney and Shet- 
h’ld, tufk or brifmac ; and is feldom found in a lower la- 
t'tude than that of thefe iflands, where it fwarms in great 
a hundance, and is either dried or barrelled up for expor- 
ta tion. 
The torfk grows commonly to the length of twenty in- 
c hes, and to the depth of four ; the head is fmall, the 
'Tper jaw projecting beyond the lower, and both armed 
a multitude of fmall teeth. The fifli known in 
"Aeden by the fame name, is defcribed by Linnaeus with 
*hree dorfal fins ; that of the Orkneys , however, has only 
° ne rifing about iix inches behind the l'nout, and extend - 
n § nearly to the tail ; oppofite to it is the anal fin, com- 
mencing at the anus, and reaching the fa me length ; the 
rays 
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