New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-25

"Nothing about IT, But Rondelst Of Montpelier,
the greatest Of French ictby oosists who a
full and accurate observer and had uncommon facii'
ties for investigating the habits Of fishes, makes the
same statement. Culver cites him 81 standard Az
thoTity on the fsl es of the Mediterranean"
Very WELL" said Minus, Z" / yield the point, and
admit the musical ears, though suspect it was the
freh lobster on my hook that attracted the WRETCH
and not the song Of the gasshcpper on the sweet Po
tato yine But in future j shall be careful now
exercise my voice while we are fishing"
The capture of the skate did not materially improve
our prospect of dinner for though the Professor pro-
roeed N cook the creature at least portion OF II,
the Pilot would not hear Of such an abomination. In
vain he was assured that 1t was favorite hsh 10 the
markets of London, Paris, and Edinburgh in vain
cited 10 him the Rev. Badhams assertion that all skate
IL eaable though not all equally good in vain the
Professor assured him that Gaen, in his treatise on
ailments, particularly recommends the flesh OF the
skate as agreeable in flavor and light of digestion.
His objections were immovable. AT length the Assy-
Ran. who had bad habit of nventng quotations,
rected to him an imaginary passage OF Aristotle about
the obstinacy of fishermen with regard TO the edible
qualities of the skate.
damn Aristotle responded the old fisherman,
eat and with the aid of the Skipper who fully SYM
pathized in his repugnance, which indeed is common
to most American fishermen he tossedthe monster
board, and Selling line he said he would soon give
us something worth cooking. Sure enough, in a few
minutes, probably because of bis fresh bait he pulled
up paddock weighing about seven pounds, as we
Judged by the eye for we were too anxious for dinner
to delay his transfer TO the pot by putting him TO the
&c ii ha ia hoila m
the Skipper is setting the table, let give you some
account of the paddock.
II belongs to the same family as the cod. A JET
black lateral line runs from the head to the tall and
above this line the color of the fish lie dark gray, and
beneath it beautiful svery gray. On each side Of
tte fish, behind the gls there is dark spot, and this
peculiarly has led the fishermen of Catholic countries
to believe that the paddock is the fish from whose
mouth St. Peter at the command Of Christ, took the
tribute money these spots being supposed to be the
marks made by the apostles thumb and finger as he held
it. 1t visits the coast of NewEngland in the Spring
in immense schools which continue till the Autumn,
though many remain through the Winter. In Summer
the catch of haddock in Massachusetts, Bay is about
twelve times as great as that of cod, but in Winter
these proportions exactly reverted In fact the
paddock is 80 plentfp in the New-EDgland fish mar
kets in the Summer that though it is one of the best
of it's tribe for the table, it brings the lowest price,
fab weighing several pounds being often sold for
cent and myriads being used for manure. 1t swarms
on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, particu-
lary on the east coasts swimming in large schools,
which appear in certain localities nearly at the
same time in different years. arriving on the Yorkshire
coast for example, about the 10th of December The
school in that quart on its first arrival has been seen
to extend from Marlborough Head to the mouth Of the
Tyne below Newcastle, distance of eighty miles in
length, with breadth of three miles. The fishermen
at these times catch them in such quantities that they
sell them at the "a of two three for penny. They
are taken with hand lines in the manner as cod.
In stormy weather they refuse the bait and take
re uge in deep water till the commoton has subsidized.
The haddock found far north in the Greenland seas
but has never been seen in the Baltic nor 10 the Medi
terranean 1t is singular that the mark of st Peters
thumb which ic wanting In the specimens taken
in British waters, nor go far as know in those taken
on the coasts Of New England is not found In the had
decks of the Arctic At least Fabricius, the ma
turast who observed the fsh the coast of Green
land did not find one with these marks, out of the
many he examined and neither Artedi nor Lnnaeus in
their description Of Scandinavian haddocks make any
mention of the spots. The French fishermen call the
paddock, hadot, from which it is probable that the
English name is derived.
AS cooked by the Pilot, we pronounced the haddock
excellent, and after dinner we raised the anchor,
hosted SAIL and cruised idly about among the islands
till near sunset when put into delicious little
cove, narrow, deep and shady on Jewels leland.
As we glided in, an old fisherman who resided
on the island came alongside in his dory to have
a little chat, and gave US a magnificent lob
;ufn Tho for
per. After coming to anchor, we all went ashore
in our boat, except the Pilot, who was detained
on board by his duties cook, explore the island
witness the sunset, and get milk, eggs, and butter
from farmhouse near our landng.pace. The island,
which lies about ten miles east of Portland ia large
enough for German principally and seemed to be
fertile and well cultivated The farmhouse was built
on elevated ground and the view of the sunset and of
the islapd-studded bay superb. Fresh and sweet
were the eggs and milk and butter with which We re-
turned to our sloop as the twilight died away,
and very jolly the supper we had in the
little cabin before turning in to our berths. The
evening was pleasantly COOL and the Assyrisn,
who was naturally Of medical turn of mind, remark
ing that boiled lobster was not Wholesome unless well
qualified with something acid awaited himself of the
pilots steamiDg ealette and brewed pitcher of hot
lemonade with a strong infusion of whisky which he
administered to each of u.s. in proper doses,
preventive against any i'll effects from supper.
The next morning, Wednesday, was fair and warm,
and we rose early and after breskfasting rock cod
and blue perch, which the Artist who was up first,
caught alongside while the Pilot was making his FIRE,
we resumed our cruise among the islands. We skirted
the shores of one of the largest of these the Great
Jebeg, and landed on it's neghbor the Little Jebeg,
around which we walked picking up shells on its