eafili W b m tb€& Fifo havé bee«••én thé fhallbvPs &. féw
m m k § , and have devoured a good deal of the Herrings'fpawn,
iltid djfebtf géd their own, they befeomë moire greedy ^khddbegln
to bite at the höök : this isJbaited with Herring orGod’s-belly.
• This kind o f fifhing lafts till about Eafter, and then they,leave
the esaft^ -and are jquite lank and emaciated. Jpft before Eafte*
thefe are feccseded by another kind, called Klubbe-Cod, 'or Kabi-
which i* much larger than the 'fpriifg God, and fê-
marktH® for a great head;, and a very fhortls'taif; Thefe w e
firm and then in feafea. They W© caught with ahbdk and liöè.
Towards Michaelmas there comes a third and fmallef fort, called
fh* Red God, from the colour of its skin. ■
Tarre God, hecaufe -they are found among the weeds, yhich'.are
galled in our language Tarre. About December a TÖürth■;• fort
gome* upon the eoaft, which wé idillvSöèlhoyèd-Tpri&, . This, is ^jf
a yellqwifh grey, pretty large and firm, bijt idhas a fmaller head
than the laffc mentioned.- Thefe, as well as the farmer, are
gaught, as we ex'prefs it, partly with a fmall lwe,: atid partly
with a ftrong one ; which words I {hall here .explaiir for fheVbe-
»eflt o f thofe who are unacquainted with the Several methods jof
öh ifig , A.fifltingdihej or, as they call it here, a Tmie-ya,
rope feven or eight hundred fathoms long, to which arefaflened
about aba hooks, with a piece -of Herring" on "each for a bait.
This long line, with the hooks, is"let down one hundred, and
often z or 300 fathoms deep, and-extended on. the bottom |o f
the fer, . From this to the futface o f the water is-carried-an-
Other line, and to. this buoys are fix’d, to’mark thé placé.' When
the Linie-va is drawn up, there is fometimés' a Fifh on every
hook, God, Ling, Turbot, or others, k The fmall line is, .on ,thé
contrary, very fine, and hung out of a boat, in about Téven"pr
eight fathom water, As they are continually rowing about,"there
is a man conftantly watching them, to pull up each line, ?ls fpön
as the Filh is perceived to bite. By either o f thefe ways' a boat
. is often fill’d with Fi(h two or three times in twenty-fou£ -hours.
In the manor o f Nordland, above Tronheim, the fifoeries .are by
mueh the molt confiderable, though the Sundmoer and Nord-
jnoer fifberies have, for a few years o f late, Been as good. Formerly
they ufed to catch Cod only with thefe two forts o f lines j
hut, as I have already ohferved, the Spring Cod do not care to
bite at the bait at firll, becaufe they are plump and fat, and ate
fatisfied with the fpawn o f the Herrings, which they are extremely
fond of. Upon this account they have, within thefe
twenty ox thirty years, begun to fifh for Cod, as they do for
Herrings,
Herri^gs/’'with!th.oifefifet£iii)ittg^gam;p, or fett-neB.-. This||asl®^ca»*
fionedifeiieril .vlyjynftits: m s^ejisotetryifiarid^fc letogthSigeneml
eontfo^rfy'i. foamier, , £ i t d&Jmorb'-importai^
than many o f ;fife learned wtfi- verfyteas..
However, the fiiihermen 'and peafaadbCare* agreed;’in 'this
point,- namely,- th a t k> is the vifeneft afem t^ifhph-his
eyes-and ewittgaarili all IMw? difes^feii^sy and obfliasetely (fp infift
upon, i t ; ! that all ;things fho^Mi ..remain as. they : were in the time
efotbeir fare-fathers ^jithab! method heing apparently «he1 belt.
They have reprefented aXrtheieduit&xjf jhftice^raaald ahtheinlWeml
meetings on this;oGcafiom,:'that ; nets wight' the Cod ’ -aWay, arid
*©ught not to be folerajtedt^ : biit cb^ifidersd.. aS?aipbrnkiba£ -innervation.
Thefe ohjefiidns^yxih^the other hand, are. (kntradi&edffey
experience, which is the heft inftruftor ; for it'iis-.undgft&ble,, that
Ttnce-thefe natshave-bsenffifed, there has beep expatte'd fifen^-this
•Caty--and,% d l profobifity, -from other parts,, o f Nsrwayy a much
greater -quantity ©£ Fifh than ever." '.TheVtruth 'perhaps ds/thafc
netSj which are very beneficial 1 to the pubhe,may pdriiapsi prejuV
dice fome few private people^ l njean- duch as either will -riot, or
are not: able to fornifo- th^mfehof with thofe expenfive latg^'enteS
aBpVBs-mahtidnied. I t is indeed a 'genefalj hut' ‘vfery true obfefA
'yatibny-jthat'.the rich and wealthy' have Sequent? opportunities of
mereafing „their wealth, ats rthaljjsixpence iof the ypoofer \
peoplerrWhat enhahees; the price1 b f nets'is^That-iwhen the Winter
proves-ftermy and
to the value of feveral; thoufand SdollarsTwhich. i itl a .y sty c b n ^
derable lofs to the owners,
I foall mow give fame account of the* feveral methods o f curing ^ ^ 4 ^ '
this Fifh, ;and making i r fiBrTcpiixjijrtbdQpi. | They a re '* tth * i
fold-i-tis ifajted'.- Cod, 'Tk^ngs Roski»t,:>&undfisk, -or ICJip&ikJjrit
The firft fort, namejy SdtiGmd,. ; ^ th u s prepared ^ after thd head
is cut off, and t-hq entrails aifeltakeh out, ife ia. 'pub>iiwllia lirgri
tahj and firew’d dveclwhh ;Fberich $dfc.as-(it(-|j;piBt
has.lain about eight days it is taken, up, and "laid in hefipSj 'foi;r the!
pickle to run inshrrpriefeEid
Portugal fait, the better to pM&h?e.'ih
the leaft fort of God, which rare ^'iiiDdllhi^'.and fo
y V t f t a W 3ryp CoSL which m pgqmarfi: M0*ajl poirmrefiended
lahder ode haiife,’ vizi
prefentyear, .«ca^dunng nineiicrffths, iia.tnely, from January to
Of October,' 3"iyi8o4 -Mtt-wei^t,-‘e'ach ‘Welgft being ^6-||)diuiid5'5^tfldes1 a great'deal
tber immenfe wealth cpntifined in thb3forth fea. Grs'aS-^Bftiti^ of
exported from rPr0tikdpn, Gbrijtianfundp.' and 'Stavanger p abd -lbr this ptifedle-alone
■ there is annhally- imported tdrBergen- 40500^. ton's of Spaniih. and French fait.
-U'Part II. f dry’d.