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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 239
are fpeaking: it is called, in the Norwegian tongue, /laackierring,
and by the Laplanders, akkalagges. There are feveral fpecies of
fhark, all of which yield a great quantity of oil or blubber. The
Laplanders eat freely of the fleth, which they cut into fteaks and
broil. So voracious is this fifh, that fharks have been taken with
other fharks of a fmaller fize in their ftomachs, and even with the
hooks, lines and weights which were laid for other fifh, having
{wallowed not only the fifh that were thus caught, but the whole
tackle together with them.
The hollibut, {fkate, turbot, and flounder, are taken in the
Northern Ocean in vaft quantities. The Norwegians call them
by the general name of qvejfa, but the Laplanders have diftiné
terms for each. The fkate and flounder fcoured and dried, the
heads, fins and tails being cut off, are fent into Denmark and
other countries of the North, where they are eaten in that ftate,
and confidered as an agreeable relifh.
The cod-fith confifts of feveral fpecies; thefe are found in the
feas of Finmark in great plenty, and in the higheft perfection:
accordingly they form a confiderable article of commerce. There
is a fpecies of cod which remains the whole year on that coatt,
and which, at certain feafons, is poor and lean. Another fort
fhews itfelf about Chriftmas, and is at that time very full of roe;
and a third kind is much -efteemed, which is called torfke, and
known to the Englifh by the fame name, though it is fometimes
written as that is pronounced, viz. tu/k. There is moreover a
fpecies which, from its Norwegian name modde, is called mud-fifh
by
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