Size, 
184 HOLLER UT. Gow. 
Genus XXIV. Body quite flat, and very thin. 
Keyes, both on the fame fide the head. 
Branchioftegous rays from four to 
feven. FLOUNDER, 
With the eyes on the right fide. ; 
i The 10 0 1 2 
Hippogioffus. ae 325.  Plevronedtes oculis a dextris, 
Ge/ner pifce. 6 totus glaber. Arted. /ynon. 31- 
Heglbutte, Hinebutte. Scho- Pleuroneétes Hippoglofius. Liz. 
nevelde. 62. Sih. 456+ 
Holibut, Septentr. Anghs Tur- Halg-flundra. Faun. /uec. Ne. 
bot. Wil. Icth. 99. Raii fyn. 329. Groaov. Zooph. No. 
pile. 33. 247 
HIS is the largeft of the genus; fome have 
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 
® Crantz, Hifi. Greenl. I. 98. 
are 
