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Sal mo articus. Capelan. Head fmall, lower jaw longed: 
body (lender; the lateral line formed by a ridge of fhort bridles; 
gill covers black: back a dull green: fides and belly filvery white, 
dotted with black : the belly often tinged with violet: firft dorfal 
fin is in the middle of the back; the fecond broad and truncated 
at top: pectoral fins large and fituated very low: tail forked: 
leno-th fix inches. D. 15. P. 20. V. 9. A. 21. The female 
wants the black on the gill covers; and the lateral line is fmooth. 
This filh fwarms on the coaft of Newfoundland , Greenland , and 
Iceland ; lives moftly at fea, and comes into bays only in the 
months of May, June, and July, to breed. The females enter 
firft, and depofit their roe on the fea plants. The males follow to 
milt. At this time their number makes the water look black 
and curled. They are taken by dipping fmall nets, faftened to a 
hoop at the end of a pole. When frelh caught, they have the fmell 
of a cucumber. At Newfoundland they are called Capelan ; and 
are preferved in brine, as baits for the Cod fiihery—in Iceland , 
Lcduq —and in Greenland , Angmarfet ; where they dry them on the 
rocks, and fupply the place of bread in winter. 
