Class IV, T U R B O T. 



fome nets for that end. Next to herrings are the 

 lefTer lampreys *, which come all winter by land- 

 carriage from Tadcafter. The next baits in efteem 

 are fmall hadocks cut in pieces* fand worms, muf- 

 cles, and limpets (called here Flidders\) and laftly, 

 when none of theie can be had they ufe bullock's 

 liver. The hooks ufed here are much fmaller than 

 thole employed at Iceland and Newfoundland. 

 Experience has fhewn that the larger fifh will take 

 a living fmall one upon the hook, fooner than any 

 bait that can be put on ; therefore they ufe fuch 

 as the fmall fifh can fwallow. The hooks are two 

 inches and an half long in the fhank, near an inch 

 wide between the fhank and the point. The line 

 is made of fmall cording, and is always tanned 

 before it is ufed. 



Turbots, and all the rays, are extremely delicate 

 in their choice of baits. If a piece of herring or 

 hadock has been twelve hours out of the fea, and 

 then ufed as bait, they will not touch it. 



This and the pearl are of a remarkable fquare 

 form : the color of the upper part of the body is 

 cinereous, marked with numbers of black fpots of 

 different fizes: the belly is white : the fkin is 

 without fcales, but greatly wrinkled, and mixed 

 with fmall fhort fpines, difperfed without any order. 



* The Dutch alfo ufe thefe fifh as baits in the turbot fifhery, 

 and purchafe annually from the Thames fi mermen as much 

 as amounts to 700/. worth, for that purpofe. 



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