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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 237
whitings, fkate, hollibut, and a variety of other fifh in abundance.
Thefe are caught and prepared for foreign markets, a traffic
which might be carried on to a more confiderable extent than
what it actually is, fo as to fupply almoft the whole of Europe.
It is not our intention to enter into a detail of that fubjeét, but
merely to give a concife account of the fifh in thefe feas, and the
methods adopted by the Laplanders for taking them, together
with fome particular circumftances refpecting thefe matters, which
have not been noticed by other travellers.
About Candlemas-day the whales appear in aftonifhing numbers
upon this coaft, not only in the open feas, but alfo in the bays
and harbours, being allured by the purfuit of the cod, herrings,
and other fifhes. Thefe latter endeavour to efcape by approach-
ing clofe to the fhores, where they are taken by the fifhermen in
the greateft quantities. There are feveral fpecies of the whale; but
this animal has been fo fully and fo often defcribed, that it will
be unneceffary to fay any thing of it, further than to obferve, that
they are frequently caft on fhore upon thefe coafts, when, as 1s
fuppofed, they have left the deep water on being wounded by the
harpoons of fifhers, or by their great enemy the {word-fifh, here-
after to be mentioned, and by unwarily coming too nigh, they
are ftranded and taken by the Laplanders.
Many kinds of fifh belonging to the cetaceous tribe, are found
in thefe feas.s Among them the moft remarkable is the fword-
fifh, an inveterate and declared enemy of the whale. This fith,
called fometimes the _/ea-hound, does not differ much in fhape and
fize
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