364 PROSE HALIEITTICS. 



aud twenty baited hooks j these lines, as they are to he 

 across the cnrrentj can only be shot twice in twenty-four 

 hours, when the rush of the waters slackens, as the tide 

 is about to change. In place of the small cobble used 

 on our coast (which is but twenty feet long by five feet 

 broad), the Dutch repair to the Dogger Bank in a boat 

 twice the length, and three times as broad, carrying be- 

 sides six fishermen engaged in the craft, a cook as well, 

 who no doubt has plentiful experience in dressing tur- 

 bot. Here, as the fishing is continuous, and the bank 

 never fails to furnish supplies, the expedition is generally 

 successful, and the proceeds highly lucrative. 



Soles. {BovyXaacroi.) 



Soles are distinguished from plaice by having no tu- 

 bercles on the skin ; from holibuts by the smaUness of 

 their teeth, which are confined to one jaw; from turbot, 

 by their eyes lying on the right in place of the left of the 

 mouth (which is also twisted to one side), and by the 

 comparative shortness of the dorsal fin. They have a 

 very wide range, extending southward from the Scandi- 

 navian and Baltic seas, along the Spanish and Portu- 

 guese coasts into the Mediterranean ; they are a frequent 

 fish in America ; an excellent kind abounds at the Cape 

 of Good Hope ; and, not to mention other foreign sites, 

 constitute, as all the world knows, one of the commonest 

 as well as best productions of the British seas, swarm- 

 ing along most of our sandy shores. Though sea-fish 

 by birth and by rights, they wiU not only live, but thrive 

 in fresh water, and like it so well, as sometimes of their 

 own accord to ascend rivers to a considerable height, and 

 nestle for months in slime at the bottom, where they 

 grow apace J indeed, when some have been retained in 

 fresh, and others of a light weight placed in salt water, 

 the first, after a year's sojourn, have been known to ac- 



