66 SEA FISH; 



sand launce, smelt, gar-fish, lamperns, or father lashers, 

 which are collected in great numbers for the purpose. 

 The same means are had recourse to for taking them 

 on our own coasts, those of Yorkshire and Durham 

 being celebrated for the number taken ; and at 

 particular seasons two sand banks, known as the 

 Yarne and the Eidge, which lie between the Kentish 

 and French coasts, are visited by numbers of French 

 and English fishermen engaged in the turbot fishery. 

 On the western coasts numbers are taken amongst 

 the heterogeneous mass of flat and other fish brought 

 to light by the trawl ; and whilst bolter fishing for 

 other fish, a turbot will often reward the fisherman. 

 The season lasts from the end of March to the middle 

 of August. 



The Conger, 



FAM., Murcenidce, 



Or conger eel, as it is generally called, is an in- 

 habitant of such places as afford deep crevices and 

 holes under rocks, and old sunken vessels, as places of 

 shelter ; in which situations it frequently attains an 

 immense and formidable size. Strange stories have 

 been told by divers of the fierceness with which any 

 attempt at invading their fastnesses had been met. 

 This fish has by some persons been considered as 

 identical with the common fresh-water eel ; but a 

 sufficient number of marked anatomical differences 

 exist in their structure to convince the most casual 



