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are very coarfe eating, excepting the part which ad- 
heres to the fide fins, which is extremely fat and de- 
licious, but furfeiting. 
They are the moft voracious of all flat fifh. The 
laft year there were two inftances of their fwallow- 
ing the lead weight at the end of a line, with which 
the feamen were founding the bottom from on board 
a fhip, one off Flamborough Head, the other going 
into Tinmouth Haven: the latter was taken, the other 
difengaged itfelf. 
The holibut, in refpect to its length, is the nar- 
roweft of any of this genus except the fole. 
It is perfectly fmooth, and free from fpines either 
above or below. The color of the upper part is 
dufky ; beneath of a pure white. We do not count 
the rays of the fins in this genus, not only becaufe 
they are fo numerous, but becaufe nature hath 
given to each fpecies characters fufficient to diftin- 
euifh them by. 
Thefe flat fifh fwim fideways; for which reafon 
Lainneus hath ftyled them Pleuronectes. 
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