4X4 a^HE TURBOr, 



"^e Turhot *. 



This fpecles is excellent food, and grows to a great fize, 

 weighing from twenty to thirty pounds. The Ikin is 

 entirely deftitute of fcales, but is granulated, and has 

 different afpenties here and there difperfed over it. The 

 whole upper part of the body, together with the head 

 and fins, is cinereous, and thick fet with a variety of 

 black fpots. The jaws are not furniQied with a fingle 

 row of teeth, as in the other congenerous fifhes, but are 

 exafperated with a vad number of fmall ones ; as alfo the 

 palate. The eyes are placed on the left fide, not fo near 

 the edge of the back, nor fo clofe to one another, as ia 

 the reft of the flounders. The dorfal fin takes its origin 

 farther forward than ufual, beginning near the upper 

 part of the mouth, and extending till it nearly reaches the 

 tail f . 



The turbot fifbery is carried on to the greateft extent 

 on the north coafts of England and of Holland. They arc 

 moft fuccefsfully caught by the hook and line ; the method 

 pradifed by ftaked nets being very uncertain. The 

 fifliernien of Scarborough are moft expert in their bufi- 

 nefs. They go out in large cobles, with three men in 

 each ; and every fifher has three lines, furniflied with 

 two hundred and eighty hooks apiece. The lines, before 

 fliooting, are all three joined together, when they extend 

 about three miles, and are faftened with buoys and an- 

 chors. They are drawn at every turn of the tide, the 



rapidity 



• PIeurone(ftes Maximus, Lin. Syft, Le Turbot, Belon. 

 f Willougb. p. 54, 



