A 



JOURNAL 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



THE ARTS, 



MA Y, 1803. 



ARTICLE I. 



A Drawing and Defcription of the Clupea Tyrannus and Otiifcus 

 Prccgujlator. ^Benjamin Henry Latrc-be, F.A.P.S* 



To Thomas P. Smith, one of the Secretaries of the American 

 Philofophical Society. 

 SIR, 



1 BEG leave, through your means, to communicate to the Intfoduaor? tt* 

 American Philofophical Society, an account of an infect, whofe marks# 

 mode of habitation, a£ leaft during fome part of his life, has 

 appeared to me one of the moll: lingular, not to fay whimficalj 

 that can be conceived. 



In the month of March 1797, illnefs confined me for feveral 

 days, at the hoiife of a friend on York river in Virginia, du- 

 ring his abfence. My inability to move further than to the 

 fliore of the river, gave me leifure to examine carefully, and 

 in more than an hundred inftances, the fa& I am going to 

 mention. 



Among the fifh that at this early feafon of the year refort to Defcription of 



the waters of York river, the alewife or oldwife, called the ^ e £ A c f ]cd r 



r the bay aletvije» 



* From the Tranfaaions of the American Phil. Society, V. 77. 

 Vol. V,— May, B bay* 



