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THE BERYX BOREAilS. 



in the Scandinavian waters much exceed fourteen inches 

 in length, they attain at times in other seas a length 

 of three feet, and a weiglit of twenty pounds. 



The PolijpnoH cernium, Cuv. & Val., which belongs 

 to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, has only in one 

 instance been captured off the coast of Norway, near Eergen 

 (lat. 00^°), and at a depth of one hundred fathoms. Far- 

 ther to the north it has not been identified. Though the 

 individual in question only measured twenty-one inches, 

 this fisli is said to reach five or six feet in length, and a 

 weight of one hundred pounds. By all accounts it is very 

 voracious. Its flesh is described as white and palatable. 



BERYX BOEEALIS. 



The B'eryx borealis, von Diiben & Koren (in "Kongliga 

 Vetenskajis-Akademiens Handlingar," i. e. Transactions 

 of the Royal [Swedish] ilcademy of Sciences, 1844., p. 33, 

 tab. ii., figs. 1, 2, from whence the accompanying illus- 

 tration is taken.) A specimen of this fish, reported to be 

 the only one known, was captured in lSo9 on the 



