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So this eye begins to move; and, little by little, it travels on 

 until it has gone round the head and reached a spot by the side of 

 the eye upon what is now its upper side! There it stops; and 

 so, during the rest of the flounder's life, it has both its eyes upon 

 one side of its head, instead of one upon each side as before. 



Soles 



These "flat" fishes are among the most curious of all the curious 

 fishes that are found in the sea. 



This family is a remarkably valuable one from a food point of 

 view, as we may see when we name some of them — turbot, halibut, 

 sole, plaice, flounder. 



EELS 



It is somewhat difficult to believe that an Eel is indeed a fish, 

 and not an aquatic snake. Its long slender body, its narrow, 

 pointed tail, and the activity with which it twists and wriggles about 



