THE DOREE, 
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Section VII. 
Genes XXXI — The Doree *. 
^His fpecies is in ail parts of an equal thicknefs ; the 
k°dy is extremely deep, and ftrongly compreiTed lateral- 
ly ; fo that in Hiape it refembles the flounder; but fwims 
er8 ft, and not on the fide. The head is flat laterally ; 
* le mouth immoderately large, being, together with the 
le ad, bigger than the body. The eyes correfpond in fize 
tth the head ; the pupil large and protuberant, and the 
^des yellow. It is fufliciently diflinguilhed from every 
ot ber filb, by the round black fpot on each fide, of about 
t! 'e fi 2e 0 f a fixpence ; a circumftance from which fuperfti- 
^ l0tl has made the doree a rival to the haddock, for the 
^°nour of St. Peter's touch, when he took the tribute- 
rtl °ney from its mouth, by leaving on its Tides thofe in- 
t / nte flible proofs of the identity of the filh, the marks of 
a ' Apoitle’s linger and thumb f . 
®bt if we are to believe the annals of ignorance and 
. edu %, the doree may claim a ftill moi'e ancient ori- 
"\ n °f the fpots upon its Tides ; for we have read that the 
tfl 0110 ^ C ‘ Chri/lopher, ’ n wading through an arm of 
e ^ ea » over which he carried our Saviour while a child, 
caught 
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eus Faber, Lin. Syfc, Gal'us marinus, Rondel- 
' B »tUh Zoology. 
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