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are fpeaking: it is called, in the Norwegian tongue, Jlaaehcerring, 
and by the Laplanders, akkalagges . There are feveral fpecies of 
fhark, all of which yield a great quantity of oil or blubber. The 
Laplanders eat freely of the flefh, which they cut into fteaks and 
broil. So voracious is this fifh, that fharks have been taken with 
other fharks of a fmaller fize in their ftomachs, and even with the 
hooks, lines and weights which were laid for other fifh, having 
fwallowed not only the fifh that were thus caught, but the whole 
tackle together with them. 
The hollibut, fkate, turbot, and flounder, are taken in the 
Northern Ocean in vafl quantities. The Norwegians call them 
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by the general name of qvejta, but the Laplanders have diftind 
terms for each. The fkate and flounder fcoured and dried, the 
heads, fins and tails being cut off, are Pent into Denmark and 
other countries of the North, where they are eaten in that date, 
and confidered as an agreeable relilh. 
The cod-fifh confifts of feveral fpecies; thefe are found in the 
feas of Finmark in great plenty, and in the higheft perfedion: 
accordingly they form a confiderable article of commerce. There 
is a fpecies of cod which remains the whole year on that coaft, 
and which, at certain feafons, is poor and lean. Another fort 
fhews itfelf about Chriflmas, and is at that time very full of roe ; 
and a third kind is much elteemed, which is called torjke , and 
known to the Englifh by the fame name, though it is fometimes 
written as that is pronounced, viz. tujk. There is moreover a 
fpecies which, from its Norwegian name modde , is called mud-jijh 
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