THE KOLIBUT, 
*13 
The Halibut *, 
I His fpeeies is called ia Scotland the turbot, though dif, 
ferent from the filh known in England by that name. It 
is the largeft filh of the flounder kind, and is fometimes 
iound on our fliores three hundred pounds weight, while 
thofe in the feas of Iceland and Newfoundland greatly 
exceed even that fixe. In Greenland they are alfo caught 
of a prodigious bulk, with the hook and line, off thefe 
hold fhores: There they are cut up into large flips, and 
dried for food to the inhabitants. The holibut is alfo 
common in the London market ; but where there is fuch 
an abundant variety to choofe, they are deemed a coarfe 
Unfavourv filh, excepting the part which adheres to the 
fide fins, which is fat and lufeious. 
The colour above is au obfeure green, bordering upon 
black ; that of the belly a pure white. The feales are 
finall, and the body all over free from fpines ; even the 
edges of the fins have no afperity from the projeftion of 
the rays. The eyes are upon the left fide of the mouth, 
an d the right of the animal. The fin which runs along 
l he back, begins above the eves, and terminates about 
two inches from the tail ; that upon the belly has its 
0r >gin about feven inches from the point of the roftrum, 
nt * terminates in the fame manner. There are two pec« 
tQ ral fins and fix fmall ones on the belly f. 
* Pleur °ne&es Hyppogtoffus, Iin. Syft. Hyppogloffus, Rondsh 
T Vide Will, in Pifcem. 
