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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. Ko'yy^o;. Arist. Hist. an. lib. 



i. &c. 

 Toyygo;. Oppian. Halieut. i. 



113. 521. 

 Conger. Plinii lib. ix. c. 16. 



20. 

 Le Congre. Belon 15g. 

 Conger. Ro?idel. 394. Gesner 



pise. 290. 

 The Conger, or Conger Eel. 



Wil. Ichth. Hi. Rati syn. 



pise. 37. 



blZE. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Muraena supremo margine 



pinnae 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.. 



X HE conger eel grows to a vast size. Doctor 

 Borlase, to whom we are obliged for much in- 

 formation relating to this species, assures us, 

 that it is sometimes taken near Mount's-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 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. 



