130- OBLONG EriODON. Class IV.; 



dred pounds In weight : and Do6lor Borlafe men- 

 tions another taken at Plymcuth in 1734, that 

 weighed five hundred. 

 Descrip. Xn form it refembles a bream, or fome deep fifH 

 cut off in the middle. The mouth is very fmall, 

 and contains in each jaw two broad teeth, with 

 fharp edges. 



The eyes are little •, before each is a fmall fe- 

 ~ milunar aperture •, the pectoral fins very fmall, and 

 placed behind them. The dorfal fin and the anal 

 fin are high, and placed at the extremity of the 

 body : the tail fin is narrow, and fills all the ab- 

 rupt fpace between thofe twa fins^ 



The color of the back is dufky, and dappled y 

 the belly filvery : between the eyes and the peroral 

 fins are certain flreaks pointing downwards. The 

 fkin is free from fcales. 



When boiled, it has been obferved to turn into 

 a glutinous jelly, refembling boiled {larch when 

 cold, and ferved the purpofes of glue, on being^ 

 tried on paper and leather. The meat of this fifh 

 is- uncommonly rank : it feeds on fhell-fifS. 



There feems to be no fatisfadlory reafon for 

 the old Englijh name. Care muft be taken not to" 

 confound it with the fun-fifh of the Irifn^ which 

 differs in all refpecls from this. 



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