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This fine and delicate lisli must on no account be coufouiided 

 witli the fresh-water Corvinie, two of wliich jjass by the same 

 synonymc in the vernacular, and arc peculiar to the j^reat lakes. 

 This is, on the contrary, a purely salt-water species, uexcr as- 

 eendin<j^ rivers, althou;;h it enters all the shallow bays on the 

 coast, so far as Cape Cod. It is a sovitliern fish in its natural 

 state, although during' the heat of tlie summer it wauilers to the 

 northward, where it is taken alon^j the shores from .Funi' to 

 October. Its southern limit is the Mississippi, and the coasts 

 of Florida antl the ("arolinas are its breedin^'-irrounds. 



As a delicacy, it holds "the same riink with .Vmcriean <^nn- 

 tronomers," .tays Dr. Dt-kay, " that the Tnrbot holds in Kurope. 

 I have frequently cntcn of both, under eipudly favourable eircum- 

 .stances, tliat i.** to say, witliin an hour after being taken out of 

 the water, an<l can assert that the Slieep's-head is the more 

 delicate and savoury fish. The Turbot, I nmy here state — though 

 I have heard the contrary frequently asserted — does not occur 

 on the shores of America.'" 



