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POLE. 
CRATGFLUKB. 
Phuronectes cynocjlossus, 
Pleuronecte pole, 
Platessa pola, 
a cc 
Pleuronectes cynoglossne. 
Linnastts. 
LaCKI'EDE. 
OnviBK. Parnell; Memoirs of 
Wernerian Society, vol. vii. 
Yabrell; Br. Pishes, vol. ii, p. filS. 
Gunther ; Oat. Br. Jruseiun, vol. iv, 
p. 448. 
The Pole is a fish of the Arctic Sea, in which direction it is 
found so far north as Greenland, where, according to Lacepede, 
in winter it keeps in the deeper situations which border 
on the shoiej but this author also remarks that it is sometimes 
met with on the coasts of Belgium. In the British Islands it 
has been accounted amongst the rarest of flatfishes, so that 
when an example has fallen into the hands of a naturalist it 
has been thought worthy of special notice; and accordingly it 
is on record that some have been obtained on the coasts of 
Scotland, where lliis fish has been occasionally mistaken for the 
younger condition of the Holibut, with which, as well in 
some of its habits, and some degree of appearance, it possesses 
a general likeness. But there is reason to believe that it is 
to be ascribed rather to its places of resort, which are among 
rocks, or in stony ground where ordinary nets cannot be used, 
than to its absolute scarcity, that it is not more frequently 
taken with us, since it has been caught, at rare intervals 
round the British coast, even in the West of Cornwall. But 
in its greatest abundance it appears to be local, as well 
perhaps, as migratory; and Mr. Thompson informs us that at 
times he has known it to be common on the east border of 
