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a pile-fish, will add greatly to the excitement; and if the ‘dogs’ 
should be at all plentiful, it is a chance if a single fish be got out of 
the sea in its integrity. So voracious are these Squalid*, that I have 
often enough pulled a mere skeleton into the boat, instead of a plump 
cod of ten or twelve pounds weight.” 
The Dab. P. limandct (Fig. 372), is very common in the markets 
of Paris, where it is 
held in great esteem. 
It takes its name from 
the hard and dentate 
scales on its body. 
The Platessa have the 
jaws furnished with a 
single row of obtuse 
teeth; the dorsal fin 
only extends in front 
to a line with the eye, 
leaving an interval 
between it and the 
caudal. The form of 
the body is rhomboi- 
dal, as in the turbot, 
and the eyes are 
usually on the right 
side. The flounder, 
the plaice, and the 
373), is a large fish, 
inhabiting the seas of Northern Europe and Greenland, where it is 
occasionally caught, measuring seven feet, and weighing from three 
to four hundred pounds. A fish of this species was brought to 
Edinburgh market in April, 1828, measuring seven feet and a half 
in length and three feet broad, weighing three hundred and twenty 
pounds. The body of the halibut is more elongated than that of the 
plaice or flounder, the jaws and pharyngeans being armed with strong 
and pointed teeth. 
Great quantities of this fish are caught on the Greenland and 
Norway coasts, and other northern regions. According to Lacepe.de, 
Fig. 372. The Dab (IHaiessa liutanda). 
dab, are all examples of this group of fishes. 
The Halibut, Hippoglossus vulgaris (Fig. 
