214 NATURAL HISTORY IFishes. 



* • With the Eyes on the left side. 



Species 5. — The Turbot. 



Turbot, in the North a Bret. PVil. Icth. 94. Rhombus maximus asper non squa- 

 mosiis, Rail Syn. Pise. 3 1 . Pleuronectes maximus, Lin. Sj/s. 4o9. Brit. 

 Zool. 192. 



The true Turbot is perhaps found on our coasts, though 

 but rare, insomuch that in these seven years I have but seen 

 two or three specimens. These are much better fish than the 

 great hohbut, but the latter is much more frequently caught, 

 and sometimes of an enormous size : I have seen a holibut 

 seven feet and a half long, and very thick in proportion, but 

 very coarse ; those of two or three feet being much better. 



Though there are great numbers of these holibuts caught 

 here, they have no method of preserving them, either by pick- 

 ling or drying them, and I suppose they would make but very 

 ordinary eating cured in either way. 



