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THE FLOUNDER. 
Genus XXXIlI.—‘27><; flounder. 
This genus comprehends the, numerous race of flat fifo, 
which keep conftantly oil one fide, and refide at the bot* 
tern of the water, from wanting the fwimming bladder. 
They make progrefs with one fide forward, and are, on 
that account, termed pleuroneBes by the author of the 
Syftem of Nature, who has enumerated feven different 
fpecies belonging to this tribe. The generic charafterS 
of the flounder are ftrongly marked : The body is flat, 
and one fide conftantly of a different colour from the 
other. The head, as well as the reft of the body, 13 
covered with fmail imbricated feales, and both eyes are 
placed upon the fame fide of it *. 
The fifties of this genus are many of them excellent 
food, and found in great plenty in our feas. From thei f 
extreme yoracity, they aie not difficult to take with th e 
hook and line- Sometimes they have been known 10 
fwallcw the plummet at the end of the founding l 1I,e * 
while the failors were taking the depth of the water f • 
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* Guar. Hill. Pifcium, p, i8r, 
f Eritilh Zoo), Clafs iv. Gen. 94. 
