THE TURBOT. 
1%e burbot *. 
This fpecies is excellent food, and grows to a great iize, 
weighing from twenty to thirty pounds. The fkin is 
entirely deftitute of fcales, but is granulated, and has 
different afperities here and there difperfed over it. The 
whole upper part of the body, together with the head 
and fins, is cinereous, and thick fet with a variety of 
black fpots. The jaws are not furnifhed with a fingl e 
row of teeth, as in the other congenerous fillies, but are 
exafperated with a vaft number of fmall ones ; as alfo the 
palate. The eyes are placed on the left fide, not fo near 
the edge of the back, nor fo clofe to one another, as if 1 
the reft of the flounders. The dorfal fin takes its origh 1 
farther forward than ufual, beginning near the upper 
part of the mouth, and extending till it nearly reaches the 
tail f . 
The turbot fifhery is carried on to the greateft extent 
on the north coafts of England and of Holland. They aie 
moil fuccefsfully caught by the hook and line; the method 
praftifed by flaked nets being very uncertain. ld ,c 
fifhermen of Scarborough are moft expert in their bufi' 
nefs. They go out in large cobles, with three men 
each ; and every fiflier has three lines, furnifhed wi^ 1 
two hundred and eighty hooks apiece. The lines, befor® 
ftiootmg, are all three joined together, when they exte 11 
about three miles, and are fattened with buoys and afl 
chors. They are drawn at every turn of the tide, l, ' e 
* rapidity 
* Pleurone&es Maximus, Lin. Syft. Le Turbot, Eelon. 
■j- plough, p. 94. 
