Class IV. T U R B O T. 



white, and covered with fuch minute fcales, and 

 thofe inftantly deciduous, as to merit the epi- 

 thet fmooth. 



It is a fcarce fpecies, but is found in Cornwall^ 

 where, from ks tranfparency, it is called the Lan- 

 tern Fijh. 



It is probable that Ovid intended this fpecies, by 

 his Solea ; for the common kind does by no means 

 merit his defcription. 



Fulgent es SolejE candor e. 



And Safes with white refplendent. 



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#* 



With the eyes on the left fide. 



Rhombus. Ovid Halieut. fquamofus. Rati fyn. pifc. 109. Tu: 



Le Turbot.*^/<j#, 134. 31. bot. 



Rhombus aculeatus. Rondel. Pleurone&es oculis a finiftra, 



3 1 o. Gefner pi/c. 661 . corpore afpero. Arted.fynon. 



Steinbutt, Torbutt, Treen- 32. 



butt, Dornbutt. Schonevel- Pleurone&e's maximus. Lin, 



de, 60. Jyjl. 459. Grono'V. Zoopb* 



Turbot, in the north a Bret. No. 254. 



Wil. Icth. 94. Butta. Faun. Suec. No. 325. 

 Rhombus maximus afper non 



fT^URBOTS grow to a very large fize; we Size, 



JL have feen them of three and twenty pounds 

 weight, but have heard of fome that weighed 

 thirty. They are taken -chiefly off the north coaft of 



England, 



