PLATE LHI, 
measured not quite two feet in length, not' sixteen in breadth; 
and that mentioned by Red! to Lorenzini, which was considered 
very large, weighed only twenty-four pounds. 
This Fish is much more frequently taken on the southern coast, 
m the vicinity of Torbay, than upon any other of the British shores. 
Mr. Grant, a fishmonger on the spot, acquainted Mr. Walsh, that it is 
however by no means found in plenty even here, as it rarely happens 
that more than one is taken at a time ; nor can the proper season fop 
catching them be ascertained, as they have been seen at all times of 
the year. The usual depth of water in which they are caught is from 
thirty-six to forty fathom, and being of the Ray kind are commonly 
taken with them. As to the time when their young are to be seen, 
Mr. Grant observes, no satisfactory information cqn be obtained, but 
it is imagined, that the sedson for them and the Rays is the same. 
He further adds, that the benumbing qualities of these fish is pretty 
strong through the net, though much weaker than when they are 
taken out. The Torpedo has been taken also of a large size near 
Mountsbay, Cornwall. Mr. Smith, in his History of Waterford, 
speaks of one six or eight pounds weight, being taken about sixty 
years ago at Dungarvan in Ireland. At Ring, a village in the 
neighbourhood of that place, Mr. Walsh was told they sometimes 
capture two or three of them in the course of a year. Mr. Pennant 
relates that it has been once caught off Pembroke, and we can further 
s ay, upon the best authority, that this species has been more than 
°nce taken upon the sandy coasts near Tenby, in the county of Pem- 
brokeshire, South Wales. 
Miat the history of the Torpedo has undergone more assiduous 
nvvstigation than that of almost any other creature of the finny race, 
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