TURBOT

The best, and, excepting the halibut of our flat fishes; it is the type of the subgenus Hlwmbus of Cuvier. It is taken either by the troll-net, or, in deep water, by the many-hooked line bated With 1IkeoUUnon smelt, or small gar-tUh. A preference is given in the l.on don markets to the turbots caught by the Dutch, who art; estimated to have drawn tor this supply not 1. XriOOOO a year. « [s. 1293]