226 H O L I B U T. Class IV. 



^XXIV. Body quite flat, and very thin; 



BEr! ° Eyes, both on the fame fide the head. 



Branchioflegous rays from four to feverl, 



^ With the eyes on the right fide. 



102. HoLi- HippoglofTus. Rondel. 325. totos glaber. Arfed. fynon* 



BUT. Gefner pifc. 669. 31. 



Heglbutte, Hilligbutte. Plearoneftes Hippogloffus « 



Srchcne'velde, 62. Lin. Jyji. 456. 



Holibut, Septentr. Anglis Tur- Halg-fiundra. Faun. Suec, 



bot. IViL lith. 99. Rail No. 329. Grono'v. Zooph, 



fyn.pifc. 33- . ^ No. 247. 

 Pleuroneftes oculis a dextrisy 



Size. rx^HIS is the largeft of the genus; fome have 

 X been taken in our feas weighing from one 

 to three hundred pounds \ but much larger are 

 found in thofe of Newfoundland^ Greenland^ and 

 Iceland^ where they are taken with a hook and 

 line in very deep water. They are part of the 

 food of the Greenlanders^^ who cut them into large 

 flips, and dry them in the fun. 



They are common in the London markets, where 

 they are expofed to fale cut into large pieces. 

 They are very coarfe eating, excepting the part 



* Craniz* Hifi, GmnU I, 98. 



which 



