Excerpt from The American Journal of Pharmacy, 1854, Vol. 26 Cod Liver Oil is derived from several species of the Gadus family, which frequent the Northern Atlantic Ocean, in all parts where the climate is cold, or temperate, and where a sufficiency of its proper food may be found. The great bank of Newfoundland, extending for many miles from shore, and abounding in food of a suitable kind, affords the most agreeable resort to these animals. They are found therein vast shoals at all seasons of the year, though more abundantly from about the beginning of June, till the latter part of N ovem ber, at which season the supply of their peculiar food (which is the cuttle fish, is most plentiful. They likewise inhabit the bays and shores of ova Scotia, New Brunswick, and of the Northern States of the Union, affording to the inhabitants of those parts, not only an inexhaustible supply of wholesome, nutritious, and palatable food, but also the procuring of them for the supply of the world gives employment to many thousands of persons, who otherwise would scarcely be able to obtain the necessaries of life, from the barren and rocky nature of the country they inhabit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.