PLATE XXV. 
predecessor, Borlase, is nothing better. That even of Bloch has in all 
apparent probability been copied from an uncouthly stuffed specimen, 
and instead of exhibiting in its colours some trace of the fine silvery 
hue of the belly and sides, which is so conspicuous in a recent subject, 
it is almost uniformly of a dirty blueish colour. 
This seems not to have been a very common species on the Cornish 
c °ast in the days of Borsale ; his figure was copied from one of the 
drawings of Mr. Jago : at this time we find that it does appear on 
the Cornish coast, but not in such plenty as it haunts some shores 
l n warmer climates. This fish grows to the enormous weight of 
four or five hundred pounds, and proves a valuable capture to the 
fishermen, when taken, on account of the oil which they extract in 
great plenty from it: the flesh is of little value, being oily and very 
tank. It is not common, we believe, on any of our coasts : one that 
Was seen in the Bristol channel about four years ago was deemed a 
great rarity. 
Our figure is copied from an elegant little specimen, which we 
"'ere assured had been caught near the coast pf Brighton. Its form, 
as represented, is nearly orbicular, and the skin rough with little 
pustules : in the dorsal fin are thirteen rays : anal sixteen : pectoral 
twelve : caudal fourteen. 
Cm el in with great impropriety makes the oblong Sun Fish of 
a 
re nnant a variety of this species. 
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