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CYCLOPTERTJS. 
The head is blunt; eyes lateral; gill-openings small, and closed below. 
Body without scales. Pectoral fins continued to the ventrais, the latter 
encircling a disk, which is organized in such a manner as to enable 
these fishes to adhere firmly to a solid substance. Body thick and 
solid, with a fatty ridge on the top of the back. 
LUMPFISH. 
LUMPSUCKER. SEA OWL. PADDLE. COCKPADDLE. 
Lampus Anglorum, Piscis globosus, 
{( (( (( it 
Cyclopterus lumpuSj 
ti (f 
tf tt 
Cycloptere lompe, 
Cyclopterus hinipus, 
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II II 
II “ 
JoNSTON; table 13, f. 1 and 2. 
WiLLUGHBY; p. 208, table N. 11. 
LiNNAinS. 
CuTiEK. Bloch, pi. 90. 
Donovan, pi. 10. 
Lacbpede. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 190. 
Jentns; Manual, p. 471. 
Yakrell; Br. F., vol. ii, p. 365. 
Gukther; Cat. Br. Museum, 
vol. iii, p. 155. 
This fish is common along the coasts of the British Islands, 
and becomes still more numerous as we proceed northward, 
even to the Island of Greenland, as well as in the Baltic. It 
is also known on the northern parts of America, but is not 
enumerated by Risso among the fishes of the Mediterranean. 
As food it seems not to be thought of in England, the taste 
being mawkish and unsubstantial, the flesh dissolving in the 
mouth like mucilage or oil. Yet the Lumpfish was thought of 
some value as a delicacy, even in England, in times not very 
distant. Hollinshed says:— “Lumps are uglie fish to sight, and 
yet verie delicate in eating if it be kindlie dressed. But in 
the colder regions of the Northern Ocean, and especially in 
