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SOLE (Solea)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 358 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOLE (Solea) , the most valuable of See also:European fiat-fishes.' For most See also:people who look at See also:fish merely from the culinary point of view, soles are of two kinds: true soles, with such varieties as See also:Dover soles and See also:Brixham soles (slips being the name applied to See also:young specimens), and See also:lemon soles, an inferior fish, which is no sole at all, but a sort of dab (Glyptocephalus microcephalus). Leaving out the latter, there are five See also:species on the See also:British coasts; the See also:common sole (Solea vulgaris) the See also:French sole, or See also:sand sole lemon sole of See also:Yarrell (S. See also:lascaris), the thick-back (S. variegate), and the solenette or little sole (S. Wert). All these agree in the right See also:side being coloured and bearing the eyes, in the elongate See also:form, in the small eyes (separated by a space covered with scaly skin, in the small, See also:twisted mouth, with See also:minute See also:teeth on the colourless side only), and with the snout projecting beyond the mouth and more or less hooked. All true soles are.excellent, but the common species is the only one which, from its larger See also:size, growing to a length of 26 in. and attaining maturity at a length of about to in., regularly appears on all the markets. It occurs from the See also:south-See also:west See also:coast of Scandinavia, See also:Mecklenburg and See also:Great See also:Britain to the Mediterranean. Most of the best fishing grounds for soles See also:lie comparatively near See also:land, though the spawning takes See also:place some See also:miles away. Much See also:information on the See also:life See also:history of the sole will be found in the monograph by J. T. See also:Cunningham (See also:Plymouth, 1890).

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