182 FISH. 



bank, like the Varne, is composed of sand and 

 shells, and the fish generally taken throughout 

 the spring of the year are, turbot, brills, and soles ; 

 summer, mackerel, plaice, and bream; autumn, 

 cod and whiting; winter, herrings, sprats, and 

 oysters. On these banks the spring tides run 

 two and three quarter knots, and the neap one 

 and a quarter. 



THE BRILL, OR PEARL. 



Rhombus vulgaris, Cuvier. 

 Plettronectes rhombus, Linnanis. 



The brill is exceedingly well known, and brought 

 in gi*eat abundance to the London market ; they 

 are caught on the same ground and in the same 

 manner as the turbot, and also when fishing with 

 the bulter for conger, and arc very good eating. 

 It is the broadest species of the genus after the 

 maximus, and was the largest flat-fish taken in 

 the time of Domitian. It is a verv voracious 



