COD. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body oblong. 
Gill membrane seven-rayed. 
Ventral fins slender, and ending in a point. 
Teeth in the palate as well as the jaws. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Gadus Morhua. G. cauda subaequali, radio primo anali spinoso. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. ] . p. 1162. 
Tail almost even at the end 5 first ray of the 
vent fin spiny. 
Gadus squamis majoribus. Bloch, 2. p. 145. 
t. 64. 
Common Cod. . Will. Ichth. p. 165. Penn. Brit. Zool. 3 . 
p. 172. no. 73. Shaw Gen. Zool. 4 . p. 131. 
pi. 22. 
It appears, according to Mr. Pennant, that before 
the discovery of Newfoundland the principal fish- 
eries for cod were in the seas off Iceland, and off 
the western coast of Scotland. To the former of 
these the English resorted before the year 1415; 
but were afterwards excluded from this fishery by 
treaty, and were not fairly re-established again till 
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