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CHAPTER XXXII. 



The Common Plaice. The Flounder. The Common and other Dabs. 

 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 Lancelot And other 

 Malacopterygious and Plagiostomous Fishes allied to them...?>oy "'-7 



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 l>y 

 the Fishermen. Speculations on the Subject. Loss attendant 

 on the Absence of the Fish. Demoralized State of the Fishermen ;">7i i 



ERRATA. 



Page 53, line 3 (heading of clmpter), for " aeh Hiit'," read " iich llaf." 

 442, line 1, far "plat" read "]>a//." 

 4C3, line 1, after tfa word "fish," insert " and to take out the liver." 



