The history of esculent fish . efeems to arife merely from age, place, and the like accidents. The nofe is fharp, the belly bowed; the head plain andflatted; the fcales are very large, and cover the body back is of a dufky blue, or greenifh-brovvn colour; thebelly white, and the fides variegated, from the head to the C tail, ( 22 ) tail, with green and black lines; its tongue is rather rough;it has no teeth. It preys fifh, and is therefore fup-pofed to feed on weeds. At certain times it comes up the river,but it is generally caught at fea. The Mullet is a very good tailed
The history of esculent fish . efeems to arife merely from age, place, and the like accidents. The nofe is fharp, the belly bowed; the head plain andflatted; the fcales are very large, and cover the body back is of a dufky blue, or greenifh-brovvn colour; thebelly white, and the fides variegated, from the head to the C tail, ( 22 ) tail, with green and black lines; its tongue is rather rough;it has no teeth. It preys fifh, and is therefore fup-pofed to feed on weeds. At certain times it comes up the river,but it is generally caught at fea. The Mullet is a very good tailed fifh; we make tobago oiits fpavvn. Mullets arc to be found chiefly on the fandy coafls; par-ticularly where there are influxes of frefh water. They comein great fhoals; and they keep rooting the mud like hogs,and leave their trace in the form of large round holes. They arc very cunning.; and when furroundcd with a net,the whole fhoal frequently efcape by leaping over it; for ifone takes the lead, the others are fure to
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