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small teeth. Its fins are yellow, with brownish spots. The left side 
is marbled brown and yellow ; the right side, which is the inferior, 
white with brownish spots and points. The true turbot is the special 
delight of the epicure, and fabulous sums are said to have been given 
at different times by rich persons in order to secure a tine turbot. 
The fish used to be taken largely on our own coasts, but now we have 
to rely upon more distant fishing-grounds for a large portion of our 
supply — large quantities coining from Holland. The turbot spawns 
Fig. 8*0. The Turbot (Rhombus maxim us). 
during the autumn, and is in fine condition during spring and early 
summer. Mr. Yarrell says that it spawns in spring. Hr. Bertram 
doubts this, although he is not quite sure of it, inasmuch as “ there 
will, no doubt, be individuals of the turbot kind, as there are of 
all other kinds of fish, that will spawn all the year round.” The 
turbot abounds on our west coast, round Torbay, and off the mouth of 
the Seine and the Somme, from whence comes most of the fish con- 
sumed in London and Paris. The flounders, plaice, and halibut form 
an important section of the Pleuronectidse. 
