. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. THE TAUTOG. TAUTOG, CHOGSET AND PARROT-FISH. While blazing breast of humming-bird and Io's stiffen'd wing Are bright as when they first came forth new-painted in the spring. While speckled snake and spotted pard their markings still display, Though he who once embalm'd them both himself, be turn'd to clay, On fish a different fate attends, nor reach they long the shore Ere fade their hues like rain-bow tints, and soon their bea
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. THE TAUTOG. TAUTOG, CHOGSET AND PARROT-FISH. While blazing breast of humming-bird and Io's stiffen'd wing Are bright as when they first came forth new-painted in the spring. While speckled snake and spotted pard their markings still display, Though he who once embalm'd them both himself, be turn'd to clay, On fish a different fate attends, nor reach they long the shore Ere fade their hues like rain-bow tints, and soon their beauty's o'er. The eye that late in ocean's flood was large and round and full, Becomes on land a sunken orb, glaucomatous and dull ; The gills, like mushrooms, soon begin to turn from pink to black, The blood congeals in stasis thick, the scales upturn and crack ; And those fair forms, a Veronese, in art's meridian power, With every varied tint at hand, and in his happiest hour, Could ne'er in equal beauty deck and bid the canvas live, Are now so colourless and cold, a Rembrandt's touch might give. Badham. ' I *HE Wrasses and Parrot-fishes, are among the most gorgeously apparelled of the inhabitants of the waters. Nature has not conferred on the Labri, said Lacepede, either strength or power, but they have received instead, as their share of her favors, shapely proportions, and activity of fin, and are adorned with all the hues of the rainbow. " Le feu du diamant, du rubis, de la topaz, de l'emeraude, du saphir, de l'amethystes du grenat, scintille sur leurs ecailles polies, il brille sur leur surface en goutte, croissans, en raies, en bandes, en anneaux, en ceintures, en zones, en ondes ; il se mele a 1'eclat de l'or et de 1'argent, qui y resplendit sur des grandes places, les teintes obscure, les aires pales, et pour ainsi ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colorati
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