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436 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS,
on which he at once draws in the line and fifh upon it, now no longer ftruggling, and
ftriking it with an iron hook, (which the Norwegians call K/aepp,) throw it into the
boat; this mode of taking flounders is in ufe through Norway, and made ufe of par-
ticularly in the fpring by the Laplanders; but in fummer there is another mode,
called in Norwegian Cang-Bad, by a line and many hooks placed at due diftances from
each other. The greater flounders ufually keep in the fea, efpecially where the bottom is
covered with a white fand. Near to the ifland Bug-Den, in Eaftern Finmark, flounders
are to be met with fo differing from the reft of the kind, that not only along the back,
but even under the belly and all over they are black, and exceed them far in fatnefs
and tafte.
The fea about Finmark produces the leffer {pecies, F/yndrer, excellent in colour and
flavour, white under the belly, dark along the back and interfperfed with reddith
fpecks. Flounders of this fort are ufually caught with a rope line with many hooks,
baited with certain fmall black worms dug out of the fand, that is covered and extended
to the bottom of the fea; or with a plummet line furnifhed with an iron hook, let
down by its own weight on the flounder lying carelefsly on the fandy bottom. Befides
there are many fpecies of flounders, of whom fome are called Guld Myndrer; others
rough fkinned, called in Norwegian Sand/hraa, in Lapland Guormak.
The fpeckled cod, or the greater, and its various {pecies, all moft excellent in their
kind, and a confiderable part of the trade of which the commerce of Finmark confifts
and by which it flourifhes, are found in great abundance in this ocean ; certainly no
other feas produce better. A certain fpecies come from the open fea into the inner
bays in fummer, fhort and round headed, by which they are diftinguifhed from others
of their kind who remain there the whole year, and are leaner. About Chriftmas, an-
other fpecies of codfifh, full of moft excellent {pawn, approaches the fhores ; the in-
habitants call them Sce/hovve-Tor/fk ; there is befides another fmaller fpecies which
come from the weedy places they frequent, called in Norwegian Tare-Torfk. Thefe
afflume from the place they keep in, one time a dark colour, another time a colour
inclining to white. But the Norwegians ufually call the cod that is fpeckled, fmall,
and not full grown, Modd, or Kropping, but the Laplanders Gakran and Rudnok. The
time of catching the fpeckled cod, confidering the various fituations of Finmark, varies
very much. But notwithftanding the faid fifh come in greater numbers at certain times of
the year than others to the fhores, yet they never fail altogether. They are caught
partly by a rope line and hook, furnifhed with bait, and let down from the fide of the
boat to the bottom; partly by a rope line fet with many hooks, and extended along the
bottom of the fea. Nets, which are very much ufed elfewhere, particularly by the
fouthern inhabitants of Norway as in{truments of fifhing, are not in ufe among the
Laplanders. The larger cod, which are caught in winter, are laid up in certain fifh-
houfes fo conftruéted with lattice-work, in layers frefh and raw, fo as to be ventilated.
Fifh frozen by the intenfenefs of the cold in thefe houfes, which the natives call Skiaae,
keep until fpring, when the air begins to foften, at which time, left giving way theyfhould
begin to putrify, they are taken out and are hung to dry in the wind in other houfes,
called Fife Cield. Cod alfo taken in the fpring, when the entrails are taken out, are alfo
hung to dry in the wind in the houfe called Fife Cield. ith of this fort from the fhape
they take from being fo managed, are ufually called Rundfih or Stok/i/h; thofe taken in
fummer, unlefs they are cleft down along the middle, and the entrails and back-bone
taken out, by reafon of the heat at that time, as alfo little worms which the flies lay in
them, could be by no means preferved from putrefaction. Fifh managed fo is called
Rotskler. But it is to be obferved by thofe unacquainted with thefe matters, that the
codfifh
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