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considerably less than formerly from causes of which we may 
speak when we have to describe the habits of some other kinds 
of fishes, and especially the Pleuronectidce or flatfishes. 
This fish will reach to about sixteen inches in length, and 
a usual weight may be three or four pounds, but I have been 
informed of one that weighed seven pounds. Head and body 
compressed, the deepest part at the vent, which is op])osite 
the middle of the first dorsal fin; eye moderately large; upper 
jaw a little beyond the lower; long sharp teeth in both, and 
a triangular spot of teeth on the palate. The scales small; 
lateral line high at first, and becoming lower opposite the end 
of the pectoral fin. Dorsal fins three, and two anal; pectoral 
rounded at its termination; ventrals slender; tail even. Colour 
of the back dusky yellow, the sides paler, but often with 
dashes of the same; belly silver white; edge of the anal fins 
whitish; a dusky or black spot on the upper side of the root 
of the pectoral fin. 
