PLATE XLIir. 
P£RCA radlis pinns dorsalis secutids 13, ani 14. Art. Gen. syn. 69. 
SciAiNA Laerax, Le Loup, Bloch. 
During the summer months, this delicious fish is caught on several 
of the sea coasts, in the southern parts of England, At different 
times we have received this kind both from Devonshire and Corn- 
wall, and also from the coast of Wales. Near the entrance of the 
Loughor river, that bends its course from the Bristol channel, along 
the westward of Glamorganshire, we have seen them in some 
abundance- 
The Basse, we believe in. point of size, very rarely exceeds the 
length of eighteen or twenty Inches. The largest among those 
which have occurred to our notice, at least did not exceed those 
dimensions, and generally speaking, they were seldom above a foot 
or fifteen inches in length. That the Basse does sometimes attain 
to a vast size need not be disputed : Writers assure us, that it i* 
known to grow to the length of several feet. Willughby speaks 
of its weighing fifteen pounds, and Duhamel tells us, that it is taken 
occasionally of double that weight, near the Isle of Noirmoutier, 
upon the coast of Brittany. 
This fish is a native of the temperate parts of Europe. In the 
Mediterranean sea, the Basse is caught on the coast of Egypt» 
and the Grecian islands, and it is also met with as far north as 
Greenland, On the coast of Holland, there are stated fisheries for 
this species, which they call See-Snoeck. Ancient writers distin- 
guish it by the name of Labrax and Lupus, or the Wolf, in allusion 
to its voracious appetites, its strength, activity, and general man- 
