. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. «!UNli ""â¦in. :â ' 222 SPJNE-FINNED FISFIKS, OE ACANTIIOI'TERVGII. The flesli of the Ea-le Eay is not oaten, being hard, rank, and disagreeable but tl.« liver IS thought to be eatable, and a large qnantity^of good oil is obtained"E it' W been ound on our coasts, a ,cimen having been taken at Berwick in 1839, but it is mos Iv lound in the Mediterrariean and niore southern seas. It sometimes attains to a verXS size, weighing as muc
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. «!UNli ""â¦in. :â ' 222 SPJNE-FINNED FISFIKS, OE ACANTIIOI'TERVGII. The flesli of the Ea-le Eay is not oaten, being hard, rank, and disagreeable but tl.« liver IS thought to be eatable, and a large qnantity^of good oil is obtained"E it' W been ound on our coasts, a ,cimen having been taken at Berwick in 1839, but it is mos Iv lound in the Mediterrariean and niore southern seas. It sometimes attains to a verXS size, weighing as much as eight humlred pounds. Its colour is dark brown We deepening towards the edges, and greyish white below. ' Befork quitting these fish entirely, a short notice must be given of several interestinrr species, ol -'hich figures cannot be inserted for want of space ^^tsung The first is the Horned Eay {rephalnptera Johnii), sometimes called, from its huee dimensions, horned head, dark body, and lowering aspect, the Ska Dkvil There arP however, several species which are popularly called by the latter title This enormous creature is found in the .Mediterranean and the warmer seas in ceneril and h'.s been taken in the nets together with the tunny. The flesh is not eaten except bv the very poor, but the supply ot oil from the liver is abundant and valuable There seem to be hardly any bounds to the size which this creature will attain. M Le Vaillnnt saw three of these huge fish sporting round the ship in lat. 10^ UV N lon^r. ° W air after some persuasion, i^nduced the crew to attempt their capture. They secured the smallest of the three, and when it was brought on board, it was found to m4sure twenty- eight feet m width, twenty feet m length, to weigh a full ton, and to have a mouth lar4 enough to swallow a man. » This gigantic Eay feeds almost wholly on fishes and molluscs. On account of their horned heads, the Italian fishermen call the old ones cows and the young c
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