The history of esculent fish . The MULLET, IS a name given indeterminately to hih ot ieveral kinds;but the true meaning of the word is the fame with that ofthe Mugil, or Cephalus. The characters of the Mugil arethefe. The branchioftege membrane on each lide contains fix:crooked bones; the upper one being the broadeft, and hidunder the gills; only five are difcernible; the fcales are large,and cover the head and the opercula ot the gills, as well asthe body of the fifh. The head is depreffed in the anteriorpart; the body oblong and compreffed. According to thefediftinclions, there is only one f
The history of esculent fish . The MULLET, IS a name given indeterminately to hih ot ieveral kinds;but the true meaning of the word is the fame with that ofthe Mugil, or Cephalus. The characters of the Mugil arethefe. The branchioftege membrane on each lide contains fix:crooked bones; the upper one being the broadeft, and hidunder the gills; only five are difcernible; the fcales are large,and cover the head and the opercula ot the gills, as well asthe body of the fifh. The head is depreffed in the anteriorpart; the body oblong and compreffed. According to thefediftinclions, there is only one fpecies of Mugil, namely,the Mugil of Ovid and the Ancients. It refembles the Thy-mallus in its external figure; its jaws are tender and thin, andhave no teeth in them; the tail is forked. The Linnrcan fyf-tem reckons two fpecies; viz. the Cephalus and Albula. Three or four different fpecies of the Mugil have beendefcribed by Rondeletius and others; but their differencefeems to arife merely from age, place, and the like acciden
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