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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 24t
they are only ufed by them as bait for fuch fifh as they do catch.
Indeed, confidering the incredible numbers of fifh in this neigh-
bourhood, it appears wonderful that the fifhery is not carried on
with more fpirit and ability ; but there feems the like inattention
here to this fpecies of human induftry, as is obfervable in the
fifheries on the northern coafts of Great Britain. It may per-
haps be the policy of Denmark rather to promote the falmon and
cod fifheries than that of herrings, and probably the impoffibility
is feen of rivalling the Dutch at foreign markets, who have ob-
tained a preference by their excellent method of curing this fifh.
Befides the fifth juft mentioned, thefe feas furnifh fturgeon, lam-
preys, flounders (called in Norway flynders), foles, turbot, and
moft of the fifth to be met with on other coafts, befides lobfters,
crabs, prawns, and other fhell-fifh. The lakes are ftored with
pike, perch, trouts, eels, and other frefh water fifhes.
Before we clofe our catalogue of Lapland fifhes, we fhould think
ourfelves unpardonable not to notice what has been {aid of a fea-
monfter called the &rake, or, as the word has been ufed in the
plural number, the kraken. This prodigy is fuppofed to be a fifh
that rarely appears on the furface, but has occafionally been feen
by fifhermen who were looking for a proper place to throw their
nets. They were fometimes furprifed on fuch occafions at find-
ing, after the firft time they threw the lead from their boat, in
order to afcertain the meafure of the water, that the apparent
depth continued to diminifh every time they repeated the expe-
riment ; and imagining that this decreafe could be only occafioned
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