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MALACOPTERYGII. — GADID^. 
great multitudes^ it is true, congregate together, 
but they seem not to obey any common laws of 
motion, shifting their places in great shoals, but 
rather each obeying the impulse of his own inde- 
pendent will, attracted by the abundance of food, 
or other causes. From these circumstances, the 
COD. 
depth of its level, and its isolation, — the Cod is 
not much taken with nets, but principally with ’ 
the hook and line. V 
There are two modes of capturing the Cod 
with the hook ; the one is wdth what are called in 
Cornwall bulters, which are long lines, to which 
are attached, at regular distances, other lines six 
feet in length, each bearing a hook ; the intervals v 
are twice the length of the small lines, to prevent | 
