This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: ...below represents the Thames Peter-boat rigged with a fore-sail and main-sail, as used by the fishermen about Greenwich, and from thence along the course of the river downwards. THE HOLIBUT. Hippoglossus vulgaris, Holibut, Flem. Brit. An. p. 199, sp. 108. Fletan, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 340., Willughby, p. 99, F. 6. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: ...below represents the Thames Peter-boat rigged with a fore-sail and main-sail, as used by the fishermen about Greenwich, and from thence along the course of the river downwards. THE HOLIBUT. Hippoglossus vulgaris, Holibut, Flem. Brit. An. p. 199, sp. 108. Fletan, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 340., Willughby, p. 99, F. 6. Pleuronectes hippoglossus, Linnsus. Bloch, pt. ii. pl. 47., Holibut, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 302., Don. Brit. Fish. pl. 75. Generic Characters.--With both eyes and the colour on the right side in the British specimen of this genus, and with fins similar to those of the species of the genus Platessa--the jaws and the pharynx are armed with teeth that are sharper and stronger, and the form of the body is more elongated. The Holibut is one of the largest species of the Pleuronectidoe, but its capture is principally confined to the Northern fisheries: it is noticed by Pennant in his Arctic Zoology, and is well known on the coasts of Norway, Iceland, and Greenland. It is usually caught with lines and hooks. The Greenlanders eat the flesh of this fish both fresh and dried, for which latter purpose it is cut into long slips and exposed to the air. They are fished for success fully by the natives of the Orkneys, who ply their lines in the slack water and various eddies produced by the different islands, out of the race of the tides; these quiet places being more particularly the haunts of the Holibut and Flatfish generally. A large quantity of oil is obtained from them. In the Northern seas, Holibuts weighing near five hundred pounds are said to have been obtained; and examples of large size have occasionally occurred nearer home. In April 1828, a Holibut seven feet six inches in length, t...
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