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boat's crew, who came to their help and assisted in 

 getting the fish into their boat. It was sold in the 

 fish market, and realised %. It weighed 11 stones 

 and measured 7 feet 6 inches in length. 



I remember another instance where a large Sturgeon 

 found itself in difficulties on a flat from which the 

 tide was ebbing. It managed to flounder and 

 tumble into a drain or creek, at the entrance of 

 which two Breydoners planted their boat, and by 

 means of nets stretched across and strengthened 

 here and there by oars and bottom boards driven 

 into the mud, kept it there until the tide had fallen, 

 and they could with ease catch it. 



BRILL TURBOT 



In February 1897 my attention was called to a 

 very strange fish combining the characteristics of 

 the Brill and the Turbot. It had the colour of the 

 Brill and the shape of the Turbot, but with an 

 entire absence of spiny processes. The fishmonger 

 assured me he had seen similar "freaks'" before. 

 The example was about 8 Ibs. in weight, and far 

 too expensive to warrant my sending it away to an 

 expert zoologist on " spec. 1 ' For a long time I kept 



