New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-08

fled and lighted his pipe he scruoized the sky and
said we should have a hot day. He then began his
preparations for breakfast, and, after calling my
rades TO come on deck and see the rice, 6shed
from the aide Of our vessel and coon caught founders
and coo sufficient for morning meal. After that
wss dispatched, went ashore for farewell look at
HEpsse ell Point and lie romantic groves of pine and
cedar, and is strely oaks and naples On returning
70 the sloOp, we made sail, aud we're soon gliding
slowly onward with gentle breeze that ecaroeJy ruff
led the water. At the end of an hour the breeze
faint az il was, grew fainer still and We came 10 an
ehor in channel, where we had in every direction
charming views through long and liquid vistas edged
with green islands. 1t was also the Skipper said, a
famous place for fab.
We GOT out our lines and had good luck catching cod
aud hsddock In abundance and also in lesser quantity
whiting and bake. The whiting were email none of
them more than a foot in length. According to DR.
Storers Report on the fishes Of Massachusetts, that
which our fshermsn call the whiting is really the Eu-
Korean bake and that which they call the bake il
really the English codliug This statement is correct
far it goes but yet the real whiting is found in
American waters and on the coast of New England
though perhaps not as far south es Massachusetts
Those thst now caught were the genuine -htpg
baudsome fsh elegantly formed, the head aud upper
white. When perfec ly fresh it is very sweet and
palstsbe the most delicate, indeed of our sea fishes
but its sofBess will not admit Of its beiog kept long
It prefers candy bottom, ard generally sSims in
schcols fe miles from the Its principal food
is the fry of other shes bot it lie extremely voracious
and devours almost any kind Of small sOel fab. 1t
reaches sometimes the weight four pounds.
The hake is much larger than the whiting and varies
in size from three pounds to thirty. One of those that
we capsared weighed twelve pounds, and was upward
Of three feet n eng The upper part of the fish is of
a gray sh brown; the lower part somewhat lighter.
Great quantities Of hake are taken in Massachusetts
Bay ouirg the Summer. They are caugbt with tue
hook on MUDDY bottoms, and bite best at night.
Sometimes gle fisherman after spenjiog the night
in +" baking" as they call it, will come me in the
morning with boat load exceeding tun in weight.
When sailed and prepared for market, the hake is
called stccksh. Those taken off Cape Cod said to
be the best.
The cod is 20 well known that any description of it
viii seem superhuous, AID yet there must be millions
of persons in the interior of the United States to whom
the fish is utter stranger, except in its dried and
sailed condition. For such readers, will say tnat it
has org smooth aud well-shaped body; the back is
of light olive green color, with numerous reddish or
yeowish spots tire belly is dusky white. The color,
however, OF eOLne Is DcduIIu IoOi
while others of lemon yellow, and others again
will be found entirely gray, without spots. The gen.
e run of cod about two feet in leng h. aud weigh
three OF four pounds though the sh sometimes grows
70 great size. In 1907 was captured at New
Ledge about so miles from where We were no " Asa
ing which weighed l07 pounds The English species,
which varies very little in appearance from the Ameri
can does Dot 10 attain 80 great size for Yarreu
in his account Of British fishes says that the largest
cod of which he had heard weighed 60 pounds
A later writer, DR.. Hamilton men ions one that
weighed 70 pounds, aud was upward Of six feet In
length.
These fish generally dwell in water from twenty to
fifty fsthoms deep, though tmss the attraction Of
plentiful supply of food will bring them to shallow
places Trey are voracious, and will eat any Of the
smaller inhabitants of the ocean. They devour large
quantities of mousca and crustacea In fact the cod
Ia the great collector Of deep SHELLS for the natural
ists many Of the rarest specimens having been OBJ
taired from bis stomach.
The cod is unknown in the Mediterranean, but 1t
s1arms in the Atlantic north of latitude 4O becoming
more abundant and larger In size you go toward the
Arctic Seas. Immense quantities are caught on the
coats of Norway aud on those of Greenland but the
great cod fshipgound of the world Is the banks Of
Newfoundland. They seek their food nesr the bot
no, with nets They win bite at almost any bait, but
our fishermen generally tempt them with clans.
The cod6shery Of the United States employs 2 0CO
eeeels and about 10 600 men, and Is carried on almot
exclusively from New-Eneland. The vessels gen.
e,ally used are schooners Of about 80 tuns burden
About thirty millions of fab annually takep and
their value when dried and sailed 81 600 The
French codfshery a. Newfoundland is "a productive
a. the American and employs about many men, bat
the vessels used generally three times large, and
consequently fewer in number.
Our fishing was at length Interrupted by a circum
stsuroe in its.H indicative of had used up
all our bait. The Pilot, In whom unusual luck
ee5 TO have aroused bis dormant love Of the pursuit
spade and bucket, aDped into the dOry, into which
followed him, aud rowed to the nearest island. We
.rsIkAA across corDfeld 10 the other side, where
broad. muddy shore spread its blseknets before ua-
the tide having left it bare and welteing for many
rood There were no traces 10 my eyes Of CLANS and
m tct nothing was visible but black mud mixed with
ss,d enough 10 make il sufficiently firm to bear our
too.st.pe. But the Pilot at 8 glance selected spot
where on digging we Disclosed bed Of happy mol
lusks-" happy as a clam" being proverb on the
coast.
While he was filing the bucket climbed over
huge rock that bounded one side the cove Of the
CLAIMS and found bey ond it beautiful gravel beach,
where was soon busily engaged in picking up aheis
Of brilliant yellow color. By the time had filed
nv bat with these the Pilot had obtained sufficient bait
and recalled by bis shout rejoinsd him, and we re-
turned 70 the sloOp, where the fishing was resumed