Fish, how to choose and how to dress / by Piscator, author of "The practical angler," etc. etc.

Date:
1843
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Credit: Fish, how to choose and how to dress / by Piscator, author of "The practical angler," etc. etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plies us with, being innocent and easy of digestion, and on this account is permitted to be eaten by invalids in preference to any other kind of lish whatever. The common Cod.—The common cod is taken on all parts of our coasts, but those most esteemed are caught on the Dogger bank. There are two varieties of these fish, which may be distinguished from each other by the one having a sharp long nose extending to some distance beyond the eyes ; whilst in the other the nose is short, blunt, and wide ; the former is usually found of a darker co- lour than the latter, though the colour is often found to vary according to the food these fishes obtain, as well as the nature of the ground they inhabit; it being a well ascertained fact that most kinds of fishes have the chamelion like property of changing their tints and acquiring those of the soil over which they usually swim and inhabit, which seems a wise provision of Providence to assist them in concealing themselves in some degree from the numerous foes to whose attacks they are constantly liable, to which a strong contrast in colour would expose them. Hence it is than on several parts of our coasts, on rocky ground, cod are taken