214 NATURAL HISTORY [Fishes. 



* * With the Eyes on the left side. 



Species 5. The Turbot. 



Turbot, in the North a Bret. Wit. Icth. 94. Rhombus maximus asper non squa- 

 mosus, Raii Syn. Pise. 31. Pleuronectes maximus, Lin. Sys. 459- Brit. 

 Zool. 192. 



THE true Turbot is perhaps found on our coasts, though 

 but rare, insomuch that in these seven years I have but seen 

 two or three specimens. These are much better fish than the 

 great holibut, but the latter is much more frequently caught, 

 and sometimes of an enormous size : I have seen a holibut 

 seven feet and a half long, and very thick in proportion, but 

 very coarse ; those of two or three feet being much better. 



Though there are great numbers of these holibuts caught 

 here, they have no method of preserving them, either by pick- 

 ling or drying them, and 1 suppose they would make but very 

 ordinary eating cured in either way. 



