. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE HALIBHT. HALIBUT, FLAT-FISH AND FLOUNDER. Flat fish, with eyes distorted, square, ovoid, rhomboid, long. Some cased in mail, some slippery-backed, the feeble and the strong, Sedan'd on poles, or dragg'd on hooks, or poured from tubs like water. Gasp side by side, together piled, in one promiscuous slaughter. Badham. npHE Halibut is widely distributed through the North Atlantic and North Papific, near the shores, in shallow water, as well as
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE HALIBHT. HALIBUT, FLAT-FISH AND FLOUNDER. Flat fish, with eyes distorted, square, ovoid, rhomboid, long. Some cased in mail, some slippery-backed, the feeble and the strong, Sedan'd on poles, or dragg'd on hooks, or poured from tubs like water. Gasp side by side, together piled, in one promiscuous slaughter. Badham. npHE Halibut is widely distributed through the North Atlantic and North Papific, near the shores, in shallow water, as well as upon the off-shore banks and the edges of the continental slope down to a depth of two hundred and fifty fathoms or more. In the Western Atlantic the species has not been observed south of the fortieth parallel, stragglers having occasionally been taken off Sandy Hook, Block Island, and Mon- tauk Point, while it ranges north at least to Cumberland Gulf, latitude 64°, and as far as Disko, Greenland, five or six degrees vi^ithin the Arctic Circle. Along the entire west coast of Greenland they exist, abundant about Iceland and north to Spitzbergen, in latitude 80°. No one knows to what extent they are distributed along the European and Asiatic shores of the Arctic Ocean, but they have been observed on both sides of the North Cape, in East and West Denmark, and from the North Cape, latitude 71", south along the entire western line of the Scandinavian Peninsula, in the Skager Rack and Kattegat, but not, however in the Baltic. South of latitude 50° their range in the Eastern Atlantic appears to cease. On the Pacific coast the Halibut, which has been shown by Dr. Bean to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896; Gill, Theodore, 1837-1914. ed. Boston, L. C.
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