Haddingtonshire
or East Losquare miles. The southern part coneastern part. It has an area of 267 tains the Lammermuir Hills, which rise to a height of over 1,700 feet. The principal river cipal river is the Tyne, which flows in a direction across the county into the sea of Tyningham. It has important agricultural interests and is the center of a coal mining region. The chief towns are Haddington, the capital, North Berwick. Pop. about 45,000.
HADDOCK (Gadus æglefinus), a fish of the same genus with the cod, and much resembling it in general appearthere being three dorsals and two anals. ance. The number of fins are the same, The haddock, like the cod, has a barbule dock is brown on the back, silvery on the at the point of the lower jaw. The hadbelly; the lateral line is black, and there is a black spot behind each of the pecthese spots sometimes extending legend ascribes these spots to the finger so as to meet on the back. An ancient and thumb of St.
Peter, and states the which he took the tribute money. The haddock to be the fish from the mouth of haddock is not found in the Mediterrathough plentiful in the N. parts of the Nor does it enter the Baltic, Atlantic Ocean, both on the European and the American coasts. On the British coasts it is abundant almost everywhere.
Those of Dublin Bay are remarkable for trawl nets and lines. In March and their large size.
It is taken both by April the haddock is out of season; in November, December, and Jan- FINNAN. uary it is in finest condition. See Jersey, in Camden co. It is on the West