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CHAPTER XXXII. 



The Common Plaice. — The Flounder. — The Common and other Dalis. 

 —The Pole.— The Holibut.— The Turbot.- The Brill.— The 

 Topknots. — The Whiff. — The Sole.— The Bimaculated and other 

 Suckers. — The Conger Eel. — The Launces. — The Pipe-Fishes. — 

 The Short Sun-Fish. — The Common Sturgeon. — The Sea Monster. 

 —The Dog-Fishes.— The Sharks.— The Skates.— The Rays.— The 

 Sea Lamprey. — The Myxine. — The Lancelet — And other 

 Malacopterygious and Plagiostomous Fishes allied to theni...;)a^« 527 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



The Swedish Herring-Fisheries, Past and Present. — Superstitions. — 

 Enormous Takes. — The Herrings desert the Coast. — Reasons 

 assigned for their Disappearance. — These Reasons gainsaid by 

 the Fishermen. — Speculations on the Subject. — Loss attendant 

 on the Absence of the^Fish. — Demoralized State of the Fishermen 570 



ERRATA. 



Page 53, line 3 {heading of chapter), for " ach Haf," read " cich Haf." 

 „ 443, line 1, far '■'■plat" read ^' paW 

 „ 4G3, line 7, after the word " fish," insert " and to take out the liver." 



