Identifier: historyofesculen00albi (find matches)
Title: The history of esculent fish
Year: 1794 (1790s)
Authors: Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759 North, Roger, 1653-1734. Discourse of fish and fish-ponds
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Jeffrey (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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mination ot Gizzards. Trouts are a very voracious iiih, affording the angler greatamufement. The under jaw of the Trout is fubjecf. to thelame curvature as that of the Salmon. There is likewife afpecies of Trout, which migrates out of the fea into the riverEfh in Cumberland, from July to September, and called, fromits colour, the Whiting. Its tafte is delicious. When theyfirft make their appearance from the fait water, they have aSalmon Loufe adhering to them. They have milt and fpawn ;but no fry has been yet obferved. It goes under the appel-lation of Phinocs, among the Scotch. They are never morethan a foot in length; the upper jaw is fomewhat longer thanthe lower; the upper contains two rows of teeth, and thelower one: on the tongue there are fix teeth. Its form istruly elegant; the colour dulky, mingled with filver. Firftdorfal fin fpotted with black; the tail cjuite black, and forked ;the firft dorfal fin has eleven rays; the pectoral thirteen; theventral nine; the anal nine. The
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The W H I r I N G IS, in Iclhyology, the Englifh name of a common fiili of theAfellus kind, called by fome Afellus Mollis, and by othersAfcllus Albus, or Merlangus. It is certainly, according tothe Artcdian fyftem, one of the Gadi; diitinguifhed by thatauthor by the name of Gadus with three fins on the back;without beards, with a white body; the upper jaw long thanthe lower. The Whiting, or Gadus Melangus of Linnams, has a veryelegant form: its eyes are large, its nofe fharp; the teeth ofthe upper jaw are very long, and appear above the lowerwhen clofed, The firft dorfal fin has fifteen rays, the fecondeighteen, and the laft twenty. The head and back arc of apale brown colour; the lateral line white and crooked; thebelly and fides filvery; the fides being marked lengthwayswith yellow. They appear in the fea, by large fhoals, in the fpring, keep-ing at the diftance of about half a mile to that of three-miles from the fhore. They are the moft delicate and whole-fome of any of the genus,

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