63 illustrations of fish including: haddock, hairtail, hake, halibut, herring, ide, kingfish, ling, loach, lophius, lumpfish, lungfish, mackerel, menhaden, minnow, moonfish, mudfish, mullet, muraena, and myxine
"Weighs from two to six pounds; at some seasons it is abundant, and again it is scarce. It appears in…
"A celebrated species, common in all parts of the Mediterranean, and occasionally met with on the coasts…
"The body is long and eel-like, and the skeleton is reduced to a mere cartilaginous tube. It ours out…