THE PI.AISE. 



Voracity of the holibut. 



they are so numerous, but because nature ha 

 given to each species characters, independent of 

 these rays, sufficient to distinguish them by. 



This is the largest of flat fish ; some have been 

 taken in our seas weighing from one hundred to 

 three hundred pounds ; but much larger are 

 found in Newfoundland, Greenland, and Iceland, 

 where they are taken with a hook and line in very 

 deep water. They are part of the food of the 

 Green landers, who cut them into large slips, and 

 dry them in the sun. They are common in the 

 London markets, where they are exposed to sale 

 cut into large pieces. They are very coarse eat- 

 ing, except the part that adheres to the side fins, 

 which is extremely fat and delicious, but sur- 

 feiting. 



Holibuts are the most voracious of all flat 

 fish; there have been instances of their swallow- 

 ing the lead weight at the end of a line, with 

 which the seamen were sounding the bottom 

 from on board a ship. 



THE PLAISE. 



PLAISE are very flat, and much more square 

 than the generality of flat fish. Behind the left 

 eye is a row of six tubercles that reaches to the 

 commencement of the lateral line. The upper 

 part of the body and fins are of a clear brown, 



