Ch&IV. SMOOTH SOLE. 191 
ones*. The chief fifhery for them is at Bhxham, 
and in Jorbay. | 
VU. The Si MO). tS. TE, 
Solea? Ovid. Halieut. 124. Wil. Icth. 102. Raii yn. pifce 
Arnogloflus feu Solea levis. 34. 
| HIS, as defcribed by Mr. Ray, (for we have 
not feen it) 1s extremely thin, pellucid, and 
white, and covered with fuch minute fcales, and 
thofe inftantly deciduous, as to merit the epithet 
fmeoth. 
It is a fcarce fpecies, but is found in Cornwall, 
where, from its tranfparency, it is called the Laz- 
tern Fifh. | 
It is probable that Ovid intended this fpecies, b 
his Solea ; for the common kind does by no means 
merit his defcription, | 
Fulgentes SOLE candore. 
And Soles with white refplendent, 
* By the antient laws of the Cizgue ports, no one was to 
take foles from the 1ft of November to the 15th of March; nei- 
ther was any body to fifh from fun-fetting to fun-rifing, that 
the fith might enjoy their night-food, 
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