GIO THE OCEAN WORLD. 
to 4co pounds. A fish of this species was brought to Edinburgh 
market in April, 1828, measuring seven feet and a half in length 
and three feet broad, weighing 320 pounds. The body of the 
holibut is more elongated than that of the plaice or flounder, the 
jaws and pharynx being armed with strong and pointed teeth. 
Fig. 390.—The Holibut (Hippoglossus vulgaris). 
Great quantities of this fish are caught on the Greenland and 
Norway coasts, and other northern regions. According to Lacépéde, 
the natives fish for this with an implement which they call gazgnaed. 
It is composed of a hempen cord s00 or 600 yards in length, to 
which are attached some thirty smaller cords, each furnished with 
a barbed hook at its extremity. The larger cord is attached to float- 
ing planks, which act as trimmers, indicating the place of this for- 
mitlable engine of destruction. 
