Size. 
Fifhery. 
192 TiUR BOOT Cha 
With the eyes on the left fide. 
Xo Thess TO aR BO ae 
Rhombus. Ovid. Halieut. Rhombus maximus afper non 
Le Turbot. Belon. 134. {quamofus. Raii /yn. pifc. 33. 
Rhombus, aculeatus. Rodel. Pleuronectes oculis a finiftra, 
310. Gefner pifc. 661. corpore afpero. Arted. /ynon. 
Steinbutt, Torbutt, Treen- 32. 
butt, eRe Schone- Pleurone&tes maximus. Jin. 
velde. 60. Sjft- 459» Gronov. Zooph. No. 
‘Turbot. in the worth a Bret. doe a4 ' 
Wil. Icth. 94. Butta. Faun. fuec. No. 325 
URBOTS grow to a very large fize; we have 
feen them of three and twenty pounds weight, 
but have heard of fome that weighed thirty. They 
are taken chiefly off the north coaft of Exgland, 
and others off the Dutch coaft; but we believe the 
laft has, in many inftances, more credit than it de- 
ferves for the abundance of its fifh. 
The large turbots, and feveral other kinds of flat 
fifh, are taken by the hook and line, for they lye 
in deep water: the method of taking them in 
wares, or ftaked nets, is too precarious to be de- 
pended on for the fupply of our great markets, be- 
caufe it is by meer accident that the great fith ftray 
into them. 
It is a misfortune to the inhabitants of many of 
our fifhing coafts, efpecially thofe of the north part of 
North Wales, that they are unacquainted with the 
moft 
