. Storia naturale dei pesci del Massachusetts, abbracciando un saggio pratico sulla pesca . il naso di una pompa acquedotto, in via Blos-som; deve, quindi, essere venuto fromJamaica Pond, in Roxbury, circa sei miglia attraverso i tronchi. La bocca è un po' come le ampie mascelle della rana ; l'occhio è grande e luminoso, il corpo spesso, attraverso le pinne pettorali; l'addome biancastro ; la schiena e i lati un'oliva scura, e le labbra della frana otto cirri, o tastatori sparano fuori ; quattro sdoppiano la bocca, due sul bordo del labbro superiore, e uno ad ogni angolo della bocca, più grande epiù lunga degli altri. Con t

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. Natural history of the fishes of Massachusetts, embracing a practical essay on angling . the nose of an aqueduct pump, in Blos-som Street; it must, therefore, have come fromJamaica Pond, in Roxbury, about six miles throughthe logs. The mouth is somewhat like the broad jaws ofthe frog ; the eye is large and bright, the bodythick, through the pectoral fins; the abdomenwhitish ; the back and sides a dark olive, and fromthe lips eight cirri, or feelers shoot out ; four un-der the mouth, two over the rim of the upper lip, and one at each angle of the mouth, larger andlonger than the others. With these it is enabledto catch small fishes that dart towards them, mis-taking them for worms, as the pout lies quietlyeyeing its game. SI LURUS 189 In this respect Its habits bear a striking resem-blance to the sturgeon. There are two species inthis vicinity ; the one having but one dorsal fin andthe other an adipose, or second high feathery dor-sal, quite near the tail. The one before us hasthis second soft fin and two more cirri; the otherhas but six of those appendages. THE HORN POUT.. These fishes are not much admired for the ta-ble ; still they are very tolerable food. Some-times they are sought particularly for the sick, itbeing supposed the flesh is remarkably easy of di-gestion. In taking them from the hook, which theyvery readily seize with almost any kind of bait, there is danger of being wounded by the pectoralthorn, which is kept at a right angle with the bo-dy, as a w^eapon of defence. The truly enormous size to which they attainin the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, may well excitethe astonishment of travellers. Dr Joshua B.Flint, of Boston, an accurate naturalist, remarked 190 GADITES. to US, that during his passage up the Mississippihe had seen them six, seven and eight feet inlength. The farther south we examine the rivers, the larger they appear to grow. ORDER VII. —MALACOPTERYGIISUBR ACHIATI, FAMILY I. GADITES. In this family, the ventral fins are fixed under theth

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