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devil) reprefented Plate xxvii. Figure vi. found on the fhore of 
Mount’s Bay, Auguft 9, 17 57. It had no fin-like appendixes 
round the head as that of Rondel, lib. xii. page 363, and that of 
Mr. Jago, but only on the tail part, interfperfed at the fides from 
the beginning of the dorfal-fin to within two inches of the infertion 
of the tail ; they were three quarters of an inch long ; it had more 
capillaments and aculei than Mr. Jago’s, and a longer rounder body 
than that of Rondeletius ; it had fpines at the end of the pectoral 
fins an inch and three quarters long ; fpines alfo at the extremity of 
the tail three quarters of an inch long : the head in general more 
bony, rough, and aculeated than in either of thofe authors. 
The Turbot, alias Brett, Rhombus maximus afper non fquamofus , 
(Ray, page 313) is an excellent fifh, comes in the fummer and 
autumn months, and in fuch plenty fometimes in Mount’s Bay, that 
two boys have taken thirty of them in an evening with hook 
and line. 
We have alfo the Rhombus non aculeatus , fquamofus , called at 
London the Pearl, in Cornwall the Luga-leaf. Ray, ibid. 
Befides others found here by Mr. Ray, as the plaife, dab, floun- 
der, Mr. Jago (Ray, page 163) mentions the kitt, the Rhombus 
Icevis Cornubknfis maculis nigris creberrimis refperfus pulchrioribus 
quibufdam interlucentibus \ the flefh nearly as good as that of the 
turbot. 
We have alfo the whiff, the Pajfer Cornubknfis afper of Jago, 
ibid, of which the flefh is good for nothing. 
We have alfo the holibut, the Hippoglojfus of authors : this larg 
eft of the flat kind is rare : there was one taken in Mount’s Bay in 
February 1756; the colour dark green, fcales fmall, body longer, 
larger, lefs fquare than that of the turbot. 
The foie is frequently catched on our fandy fhores, but rather 
larger on the fands of Scilly than in Cornwall. Finding the prints 
in general of this fifh defective or redundant in fome particulars n . 
I have given an icon of it Plate xxvi. Fig. 11. with its fpines num- 
bered, from a fair fpecimen of Mount’s Bay. 
We have alfo the Solea Icevis , vel arnoglofus , called the Lantern 
by the Cornifh (fays Mr, Ray, page 34) from its tranfparency. 
sect.v. Of fea-fifh round, long, and of the eel-form, in Cornwall the 
Fifh, round, con g e r or conger-eel may be reckoned firft : We have alfo the free- 
n In Rondeletius the mouth is neither rightly 
fhaped nor placed ; the branchial fin is too large, 
and not fpotted black at the end ; the fide line is 
too large, and continued to the upper eye ; whereas 
it is indeed a ftraight (lender line from the middle 
of the tail to the under or left eye, and ends at 
the cheek-bone, and the mouth winds round clofe 
under the right or upper eye ; and in him the tail- 
fin is perpendicular ; whereas it is really circular, 
as in this drawing. This fifh had fixty-eight 
fpines on the mouth-fide, and eighty-eight on 
the oppofite. 
eel, 
