. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . the carp to be a fifh of northern climates ; I havenever even fetn them in thefe, they are certainly not in Ethi-opia whence the Nile comes; their name, Cyprinus, feem toindicate they belong to Greece. They are found in theiflandof Cyprus, but whether exclufively from the reft of theiflands is what I cannot determine. This fifh has two fins upon its back ; the firfl has a fharpfhort thorn before it, and is compofed of feven longer ones,,fharp pointed, but much weaker in fhape,
. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . the carp to be a fifh of northern climates ; I havenever even fetn them in thefe, they are certainly not in Ethi-opia whence the Nile comes; their name, Cyprinus, feem toindicate they belong to Greece. They are found in theiflandof Cyprus, but whether exclufively from the reft of theiflands is what I cannot determine. This fifh has two fins upon its back ; the firfl has a fharpfhort thorn before it, and is compofed of feven longer ones,,fharp pointed, but much weaker in fhape, refembiing thelatine fail of a boat. The one behind it is compofed ofeleven fmall pliable bones, but not armed with any belly has two fins, made of pliable, unarmed boneslikewife, and on its fide near the gills it has two others ofthe fame kind. The tail is forked into two fharp thin nar-row divifions, that below are confiderably fhorter than a-bove. Below its throat is a parcel of long-bones hangingdown like a beard, which grow longer as they approach thetail, the laft being the larger! of all. The. ) S&r&tjc Zl>m.(i>7i kCb, APPENDIX. 215 The whole body of this fifh is covered with filverfcalesmuch refembling filver fpangles, they lie clofe is no variety of colour upon the whole fifh except-ing a fhade of red upon the end of the nofe, which is fatand fleihy. His eye is large and black, with a broad iris ofwhite ftained with yellow. It has a number of fmall teethvery {harp and clofely fet, nature has probably given himthis quantity of fins to fave him from the crocodile, whomby his fize he feems deftined to feed. ^&&= CARETTA, or SEA-TORTOISE. AMONG the natural productions of the Red Sea, whicheither have b^cn or are at prefent articles of commerce,1 (hall juft fpeak a little of that fpecies of the Teftudoor Tortoife, called the Caretta or Hawks-bill. It is greatly in-ferior in fize to the Weft Indian or American fea-tortoife. Theextreme length
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