Barbel, Barbus barbus 118, European flounder, Platichthys flesus 121, roach, Rutilus rutilus 117, sole, Solea solea 120, and whiting, Merlangius merlangus 119. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1808.

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