PLATE XLVI. 
of that place, that the Turbot Fishery is considered there as a very 
important concern. 
The Turbot grows to a large size, being sometimes caught of 
fifteen or twenty pounds weight; there are instanees of its being 
found even of thirty pounds weight, but Turbots of this size are fat 
from common. 
In the dorsal fin of one specimen we counted sixty rays : pectoral 
fin twelve : ventral six ; anal forty-three : and in the tall seventeen. 
The Turboti it may be added, is commonly taken with the hook and line, baited prio' 
cipally with small pieces pf other fish, especially herrings. The Dutch fishermen make 
use of the smaller Lamprey, that is found in the river Thames, about Mortlake, vast 
quantities of which they purchase of the English fishermen for this purpose, as well as 
for baiting the apparatus employed in their extensive Cod-Fisheries in the North Seas. 
