PLATE LXXV. 
♦liJantity of it during that season as an article of their winter store of 
P''ovisions by a very simple process, first cutting the fish into long 
slips of moderate thickness, and afterwards allowing them to dry gra- 
dually in the sun. Upon our coasts it does not appear to be a very 
•Common species except towards the southern parts of the k ingdom. It 
is found on the western coasts we believe most frequently. We have 
received small specimens from Scotland, where it is also taken occa- 
sionally of a vast size. On the coast of Wales we are inclined to 
*innk it cannot be very common. The appearance of a Holibut some 
years ago in the straits of Menai, between the northern extremity 
Caernarvonshire and the island of Anglesea, was considered as 
^ very extraordinary incidence by the Rev. Hugh Davies, of Beau- 
•’laris, who informed us of the circumstance, in one of our visits 
*0 that country, and pointed out the spot on which it was stranded, 
Pot far distant from Portaethwy. 
The Holibut is a voracious fish, but from its habits of prowling, 
tind swimming near the bottom of the sea, or close under the shelter of 
vocks, subsists chiefly on the smaller kinds of flat fish, on crabs, lob- 
®ters, and other Crustacea ; and on the lump sucker, which latter they 
abundantly common, attached under water to the rocks by means 
of their adhesive organ, or sucker. 1'hese are the chief objects of its 
IP’oy- In its turn it has many enemies ; when young, or in the egg 
®tate, the Holibut is the prey of all the various species of the ray tribe, 
it Is of the propesse and sharks when full grown. The Holibut 
i* taken on the coast of Greenland, Iceland, and Norway, by means 
of strong hooks and lines, similar to those employed in the cod 
^slieries, but for the capture of the larger fishes the spear, or harpoon 
generally used with most success. 
