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CONGER EEL. 



Class IV. 



were so fond of these fishes, as to exempt 

 from every kind of tribute the persons who 

 sold them.* 



2. Conger. Koyy% 05. Arist. Hist. an. lib. 



i. &c. 

 rbyygo;. Oppian. Halieut. i. 



113. 521. 

 Conger. Plinii lib. ix. c. 16. 



20. 

 Le Congre. Belon 16g. 

 Conger. Rondel. 394. Gesner 



pise. 2g0. 

 The Conger, or Conger Eel, 



Wil. Ichth. hi. Raii syn. 



pise. 37. 



Muragna supremo margine 



pinnce dorsalis nigro. Arted. 



synon. 40. 

 Muraena Conger. M. rostro 



tentaculis duobus, linea la- 



terali ex punctis albida. Lin. 



syst.426. Gm. Lin. 1135. 

 Le Congre. Block ichth. v. 



33. tab. 155. 

 La Murene Congre. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons, ii. 



269. 



Size. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



X HE conger eel grows to a vast size. Doctor 

 Bojiase, to whom we are obliged for much in- 

 formation relating to this species, assures us, 

 that it is sometimes taken near Mounfs-Bay of 

 one hundred pounds weight, f 



It differs from the common eel in the follow- 

 ing particulars : 1. Its color in general is more 

 dark. 2. Its eyes much larger in proportion. 



* Athenceus. Lib. xii. p. 521. 



■f 1 We have heard of some taken near Scarborough that were 

 ten feet and a half long, and eighteen inches in circumference in 

 the thickest part. The proportions of one taken in the Dee were: 

 length four feet ; girth, a little below the head, one foot ; weight 

 ten pounds. 



