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In the fresh water of lakes, mountain streams, 

 rivers and marshes, we meet with periodical visitants 

 from the sea and permanent tribes which have but 

 few representatives in salt water. Among the first, 

 the mountain mullets of Jamaica are remarkable ; 

 Salmones, Sturiones, many Percoides, Atherinae and 

 even Pleuronectes, may be reckoned ; in the second 

 series nearly the whole Cyprinoid (carps) and Silu- 

 roid (catfish) families occur, together with other 

 Salmones, Esoces, Cobeled, Loricaria, Petromysons, 

 &c. Some of these are formed to live in elevated 

 lakes, others have the power of ascending cataracts 

 and waterfalls of a most formidable nature, and there 

 are species which can quit the water, such as Peri- 

 opthalmi, and trip from stone to stone to overtake 

 their insect prey, prowl through meadows and pass 

 from pool to pool without peretation. There are 

 species which it is believed ascend into trees and nestle 

 in the small deposits of water often found in the 

 cup-shaped forms of parasitical plants ; such is the 

 Anabas Scandens of the Indian seas. But the facil- 

 ity of living in atmospheric air for many hours, is 

 indeed still most conspicuous in a small species of 

 Antennarius or Angler, the Chironectes Commer- 

 conii, which from the peculiar conformation of 

 its fins, shaped somewhat like arms, is enabled 



estuary of St. Lawrence, Strait of Belleisle, coast of Halifax and 

 banks of Newfoundland, the British Channel, coast of Holland 

 and Belgium, the coast of Provence in the Mediterranean. — 2nd, 

 from notes and inquiries obtained from our riaval surveying officers 

 in the Bight of Benin, round the Cape of Good Hope, Straits of 

 Madagascar, Red Sea, Nicobar Islands, New Holland, China 

 seas, River Plata, Straits of Magellan, Cape Horn, Valparaiso, 

 Callao, California and the west coast of Ireland and Scotland. — 

 3rd, from Ripo Ichthyolope de Nice and other authors. I ought 

 also to name Peter Restive an intelligent provencal fisherman 

 who spent his youth on the Mediterranean, and for many years of 

 his after life was settled between Old Harbour and Port Royal, 

 Jamaica; one thoroughly acquainted with the whole fishing and 

 trading concerns along the Spanish Main and the islands. 

 VOL. VI. — 1835. D 



