. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . ds are taken in a small lake in the provinceof Che-Kyang. Every person of fashion keeps them for amusement, eitherin porcelain vessels, or in the small basons that decorate the courts of theChinese houses. The beauty of their colors, and their lively motions, givegreat entertainment, especially to the ladies, whose pleasures, by reason ofthe cruel policy of that country, are extremely limited. In the form of the body, they bear a great resemblance to a carp. The
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . ds are taken in a small lake in the provinceof Che-Kyang. Every person of fashion keeps them for amusement, eitherin porcelain vessels, or in the small basons that decorate the courts of theChinese houses. The beauty of their colors, and their lively motions, givegreat entertainment, especially to the ladies, whose pleasures, by reason ofthe cruel policy of that country, are extremely limited. In the form of the body, they bear a great resemblance to a carp. Theyhave been known in Europe to arrive at the length of eight inches; intheir native place, they are said to grow to the size of our largest herring. The nostrils are tubular, and form a sort of appendages above the noso;the dorsal fin and the tail vary greatly in shape ; the tail is naturally bifid,but in many it is trifid, and in some even quadrifid; the anal fins are thestrongest characters of this species, being placed not behind one another,like those of other fish, but opposite each other, like the ventral tins. THE 1 Sound as a roach, is a proverb that appears to be but indifferently found-ed, that fish being not more distinguished for its vivacity than many others;yet it is used by the French as well as the English, who compare people of Cyprinus auratus, Lin. * Leuciscus rutilus, Cvv. The genus Leuciscw has the dorsal aati an*l fins shert, an/destitute of spines and cirrhi. 740 PISCES—COD. strong health to the rouget, or roach. It is so silly a fish, that it is calledthe water sbeep. It is a common fish, found in many of our deep still rivers, affecting, likethe others of this genus, quiet waters. It is gregarious, keeping in largeshoals. We have never seen them very large. Old Walton speaks of somethat weighed two pounds. In a list of fish sold in the London markets,with the greatest weight of each, there is mention of one whose weight wasfive pounds. ORDER V
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