BERQYLT. 
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appears to be the same of which some of the habits, as well 
as the description, are contained in the work of Lacepede, who 
says it attains to two yards in length,) may on examination 
prove to be a distinct species. The fish here referred to is 
known by the name of Hav TJez, and is twice as large as the 
more common Bergylt. They are believed to live together in 
considerable numbers, on stony ground, at the enormous depth 
of from one hundred to a hundred and fifty fathoms. Professor 
Kilsson, the eminent Swedish naturalist, informs us that not 
unfrequently very large numbers of them are found floating 
on the surface, dead or in a dying condition, with their eyes 
protruding from their head, and their entrails from their mouths; 
them violent death being ascribed to the circumstance of their 
having fallen in the way of some of those sudden whirlpools 
that occur at the bottom of the sea in these districts, of which 
the well-known maelstrom is not the only example. The great 
difference of pressure to which they are exposed, by being 
thrust from the great depth of their ordinary residence to a 
much higher stratum of water, will account for the particular 
appearances attending their death. The young are produced 
in June; and it is confidently believed by the fishermen that 
they continue to accompany the mother for a considerable time. 
It is even supposed on good evidence that they proceed from 
the mother alive. 
Fin rays dorsal fifteen spinous and thirteen soft, pectoral 
seventeen, ventral one spinous and five soft, and three spinous 
and seven soft, caudal fifteen. 
