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GENERAL REMARKS 
by the Englifh bfhmongers, to whom it never comes but in a 
pickled Rate. The Laplanders take the cod and torfke by line 
and hook only, but in fome dibrids of Norway they are caught 
with nets. They are found on different parts of the coab at dif¬ 
ferent feafons, but are never known w r holly to forfake it; accord¬ 
ingly the time of billing for them varies with the place. The 
cod and torske, which are taken in the winter, are carefully piled 
up as they are caught, in buildings conbruded for the purpofe, 
having their fides open and expofed to the air. Here they re¬ 
main frozen until the following fpring, when the weather be¬ 
coming milder, they are removed to another building of a like 
conbrudion, in which they are prepared for drying. The heads 
are cut off, the entrails taken out, and the remainder hung up in 
the air. Fifh caught in the fpring are immediately conveyed to 
the fecond houfe, and dried in the above manner. The bill thus 
cured, from their round and biff fhape, receive the names of 
rund-fjk , or JlocbfJk, and are known to us by the lab name, viz. 
JhchJjJh. The cod, torbke, ling, &c. caught in the fummer feafon, 
on account of the warmth of the weather, are only to be preferved 
by the common methods of curing with fait. The merchants 
who purchafe bock-bbi attend to the brightnefs of the colour, and 
obferve that the belli be not foft and fpongy, both which defeds 
are occaboned by the unfavourable bate of the atmofphere at the 
time of exiccation. 
Herrings are found in thefe feas in immenfe profubon, but the 
Laplanders have neither nets nor fkill to take them ; accordingly 
they 
