Class IV. TURBOT FLOUNDER. 315 



*"* With the eyes on the left side. 



Rhombus. Ovid Halieut. Pleuronectes oculis a sinistra, 8. Turbot. 



Le Turbot. Belon, 134. corpore aspero Arted. sy- 



Rhombus aculeatus. Rondel. non. 32. 



310. Gesner pise. 66l. Pleuronectes maximus. Lin. 



Steinbutt, Torbutt, Treen- syst. 45g. Gm. Lin. 1236. 



butt, Dornbutt. Schone- Gronov. Zoopli. No. 254. 



velde, 60. Butta. Faun. Suec. No. 325. 



Turbot, in the north a Bret. Le Turbot. Block Ichth. ii. 



Wil. Ichth. 94. 51. tab. 4g. 



Rhombus maximus asper non De la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



squamosus. Rail syn. pise. sons. iv. 645. 



31. 



XURBOTS grow to a very large size; we Size. 

 have seen them of three and twenty pounds 

 weight, but have heard of some that weighed 

 thirty. They are taken chiefly off the north 

 coast of England, and others off the Dutch 

 coast; but we believe the last has, in many 

 instances, more credit than it deserves for the 

 abundance of its fish. 



The large turbots, and several other kinds of Fishery. 

 flat fish, are taken by the hook and line, for they 

 lye in deep water : the method of taking them 

 in wares, or staked nets, is too precarious to be 

 depended on for the supply of our great mar- 

 kets, because it is bv mere accident that the 



