OF FISHES. 3 Rj. 



armed with numerous fliarp teeth ; the lateral line of a dufky 

 hue, broad and crooked. They are both foft, and of a watry 

 tafte. They afford good diverfion with a hook and line, taking 

 a bait greedily ; the angler either fitting or Handing upon a rock, 

 on a ferene cloudy day, ufually taking great numbers, in the 

 fpace of a few hours. 



qi. That beautiful and admired fifli, the Mackrd (<v)> is fome- 

 times taken, but not often. In the year 1762, which was a re- 

 markable dry fummer, even to the definition of our herbage, 

 we had them pretty plentifully in all our better markets. 



22. The valuable and juftly efteemed fifli, the Herring (TV}, is 

 an annual vifitant of our northern coaft, and is fometimes taken 

 in great numbers, but not enough for export. 



33. We have the Turbo f (xj, the moil firm and delicate tafted 

 fifh of all the flat cartilaginous fpecies, with which not only our 

 own, but many of the London-tables, are often fupplied. 



(v) Scomber. Charlet. Fife. p. 27. n. 4. Schonef. Icht. p. 66. Will. Fife, p j8i. Tab. 

 M. in. Raj. Syn. Fife. p. 58. Scombrus. Salv. Pifo. p. 241. t. 239. Scomber pinnulis 

 quinque in extreme dorfo, fpina brevi ad anum. Artedi. gen. 30. Syn. 48. Sp. 68. Scom- 

 ber radiis pecloralium viginti, dorfalium duodecim. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 107. n. 287. 



(w) Halec. Charlet. Fife. p. 4. Harengus. Rond. Fife. p. 222. Scbonef. Icht. p. 36. 

 Will. Fife. p. 219. Tab. P. \. Raj. Syn. Fife. p. 103. Clupea, maxilla inferiore longi- 

 ore, maculis nigris carens. Artedi. gen. 7. Syn. 14. Sp. 37. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 120. 

 11.315. 



(x) Rhombus, (a fgura quadrata , cujus later a funt etnnia esqualia, anguli vera obiiqui). 

 Charlet. Fife. p. 30. n. n. Rhombus maximus afper non fquamofus. Will. Fife. p. 94. 

 Tab. F. n. Raj. Syn. Fife. p. 31. Pleuronefles oculis a fmiftra, corpore afpero. Artedi. 

 geru 18. Syn. 32. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 112. n. 298. TURBOT. BRETT. Dale, Harw. 

 p. 423. n. i. 



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