PISCES—HADDOCK...HALIBUT...TURBOT. TAL 
immense capture, however, makes but a very small diminution, when com- 
pared to their numbers; and when their provision there is exhausted, or the 
season for propagation returns, they go off to the polar seas, where they 
deposit their spawn. Previous to the discovery of Newfoundland, the 
principal fisheries for cod were-in the Iceland seas, and off the western 
isles of Scotland. 
THE HADPDNWCK! 
Js a well-known fish of this genus, which much resembles the cod, but is 
smaller; it is also distinguished by a black mark on each side beyond the 
gills, which superstition ascribes to the impression which St Peter left with 
his finger and thumb, when he took the tribute money out of the fish’s 
mouth, which tradition would have us believe to have been of this species. 
PE HALL BU T2 
Weicus from one hundred to three hundred pounds. The halibut is the 
most voracious of fishes, and has been known to swallow even the lead which 
seamen make use of for the purpose of sounding the depth. Its back is a 
dusky color; its belly pure white. The flesh is very coarse and indifferent 
food. It is the narrowest fish in proportion to its length of any of this 
genus, except the sole. 
THE. POURBOTS 
Lixe some others of the flat fish, grows to a great size. It has occasionally 
been known to weigh from twenty-five to thirty pounds. In its general 
form it is somewhat square. Flat fish swim sideways, on which account 
they are styled plewronectes by Linneus. The eyes of all of them are situs 
ated on one side of the head, those of the turbot on the left; and it is a curi- 
ous circumstance, that, while the under parts of their body are of a brilliant 
white, the upper parts are so colored and speckled, as, when they are half 
1 Morrhua eglefinus, Lin. 
* Hippoglossus vulgaris, Buocn. This genus has the hody oblong, compressed; the 
jaws and pharynx armed with slender pointed teeth; an interval between the dorsal and 
anal fins and tail. 
8Rhombus maximus, Cuv. This genus has the jaws and pharynx with numerous 
slender pointed teeth ; dorsal fin rising from the margin of the upper Jaw, and rnnning, as 
well as th: anal, almost to the tail ; eyes in the greater number suuistral. 
