. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. much re-sembles it. The turbot is supposed to. have been the rhom-bus of the Romans, of which a specimen of enormous size issaid to have been taken in the reign of Domitian, who calleda meeting of the senate to decide upon the best mode of bring-ing it to the table! Juvenal says:. No vessel ne finds to hold such a fish,And the senates convoked to decree a new dish. - Geo-tesqui:, ludicrous ; odd. 3 A-nom-a-ly, irregularity. * At-tri-bute, inherent quality; property. 5 Pie-b.^ld, of various colors. ^ cnA-EADE (,s7m-j«(fe), a word whos
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. much re-sembles it. The turbot is supposed to. have been the rhom-bus of the Romans, of which a specimen of enormous size issaid to have been taken in the reign of Domitian, who calleda meeting of the senate to decide upon the best mode of bring-ing it to the table! Juvenal says:. No vessel ne finds to hold such a fish,And the senates convoked to decree a new dish. - Geo-tesqui:, ludicrous ; odd. 3 A-nom-a-ly, irregularity. * At-tri-bute, inherent quality; property. 5 Pie-b.^ld, of various colors. ^ cnA-EADE (,s7m-j«(fe), a word whose syl-lables or letters are described, first sepa-rately and then together, so as to form akind of riddle. 3. THE SALT-WATER SUCKERS. 1, Of the fish known as the salt-water Suckers, there aretwo families. In the first the ventral fins, which are verymuch dilated beneath, are united around a circular disk,which acts as a sucker. By means of this instrument thesefishes are able to attach themselves to anv firm bodies in a Part V. ICHTHYOLOGY, OR FISHES. 255. ^cuie of luc/tt 8ALT-WATER S0CKEES.—1. ^^Tiite-t>iled Remora, or Sliavk Sucker, Echeneis The Common Eemora, or Sueking-fisli, Echeneis remora. 3. Comish Sucker, Lepa-dogastes comubiensis. 4. Lump Sucker, Cyclopteriis lunipus. strong current of water, and thus to obtain food in placeswhere most other fish would be swept away. Ihe smallCornish sucker, found on the European coasts, and the com-mon lump sucker, a beautifully colored fish found throughoutall the Northern Seas, are the best known. Pennant relatesthat upon throwing a lump sucker into a pail of water, it ad-hered so firmly to the bottom that, upon taking hold of thefish by the tail, he lifted the whole vessel, although it heldseveral gallons. 2. The few fishes which compose the second family of theSuckers are natives of Southern Seas, although a few speciesare occasional visitors of our American coasts. In this famiiythe adhesive disk is placed on
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