GEN. AMMODYTES. SAND-LAUNCE. 273 



Sand-launces are eaten in other countries besides 

 our own. Mr. Swainson informs us that the Sici- 

 lians reckon them, when fried, among their most 

 deHcious fishes, and he therefore recommends them 

 to be eaten in this country, which, he adds, they 

 seldom or never are, owing to some singular preju- 

 dice. It is strange that he should have been unac- 

 quainted with the fact that they are in such general 

 use and so much esteemed especially in Scotland. 



