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to 400 pounds. A fish of this species was brought to Edinburgh 

 market in April, 1828, measuring seven feet and a half in length 

 and three feet broad, weighing 320 pounds. The body of the 

 holibut is more elongated than that of the plaice or flounder, the 

 jaws and pharynx being armed with strong and pointed teeth. 



F'ig. 390. The Holibut (Hippoglossus vulgaris). 



Great quantities of this fish are caught on the Greenland and 

 Norway coasts, and other northern regions. According to Lacepede, 

 the natives fish for this with an implement which they call gangnaed. 

 It is composed of a hempen cord 500 or 600 yards in length, to 

 which are attached some thirty smaller cords, each furnished with 

 a barbed hook at its extremity. The larger cord is attached to float- 

 ing planks, which act as trimmers, indicating the place of this for- 

 midable engine of destruction. 



