CHAPTER XVIII. 
OF THE FLOUNDER. 
This is one of tho most singular and odd-looking productions 
of the deep, and were it not that they are the common salt 
water fish of the world, would he viewed with wonder and 
astonishment. One would suppose, from the flat appearance 
and formation of their bodies, that nature had been rather 
scarce of materials when making up this division of the salt 
water tribe. Besides many places of their abode, too nu- 
merous to mention, in the old world, they are found in most 
of salt water stations of the new. They are taken in goodly 
quantities, and in good condition, in certain seasons, according 
to Smith and Mitchill, in the vicinity of New-York and Mas- 
sachusetts, and also to tho south and north of these places. 
Tho former remarks — “No family of aquatic beings is charac- 
terized by so many strong circumstances. The eyes are both 
on one side, but so arranged as to look upward at an angle of 
about eighty degrees. The side on which the eyes are fixed 
is always colored, but the opposite one is quite light or 
whitish. In fact, their anatomy demonstrates the greatest 
want of symmetry. Writers romark, among other things, 
