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NATURAL HISTORY 
coast, is as follows; three men go out in each of the 
boats, each man provided with three lines; every one of 
which is furnished with two hundred and eighty hooks, 
placed exactly six feet two inches asunder. These are 
coiled on an oblong piece of wicker-work, with the hooks 
baited, and placed very regularly in the centre of the 
coil. When they are used, the nine are generally fas- 
tened together so as to form one line with above two 
thousand hooks, and extending near three miles in length. 
This is always laid across the current. An anchor and 
buoy are fixed at the end of each man’s line. The boats 
for this purpose are each about a ton burthen; somewhat 
more than twenty feet in length, and about five in width. 
They are well constructed for encountering a boisterous 
sea, and have three pair of oars, and a sail, to be used as 
occasion requires. 
The general bait used for taking turbots is fresh her- 
ring cut into proper sized pieces, which they bite most 
readily; they are also partial to the smaller lampreys, 
pieces of haddock, sand-worms, muscels, and limpets; 
and when none of these are to be had, the fishermen use 
bullock’s liver. They are so extremely delicate in their 
choice of baits, as not to touch a piece of herring or had- 
dock that has been twelve hours out of the sea. 
Bow Banded Chetedon. (PI. 48.) The head of 
this curious fish is large; the eyes placed near the top, 
and small; the pupil black, iris gold yellow. The aper- 
ture of the gall is wide, and at the covert there is a spine. 
The lateral line is made up of white dots. The ground 
colour is brown, which towards the back inclines to black; 
and looks as if covered with velvet, and inlaid with ivory. 
The tail is not divided. This species inhabits the coasts 
of Brasil, and other parts of South America; and grows 
from three to six inches in length. 
In winter or the rainy seasons, they lie in deep holes 
near the shore, which they quit in spring to come into 
the shallows near the land: during the summer, when 
the sun in those climates blazes the whole day with irre- 
sistible fierceness, they keep at the depth of twenty or 
thirty yards, which protects them from its intense heats®—? 
