Z.qo OSBECK'S VOYAGE, 



the oozy ground, not without the knowledge of 

 the Chinefe, who took care to obferve them; 

 and pulled them out with their hands ; thefe fifh, 

 fryed in oil, are the principal food of the poor, 

 befides rice; and are of two fpecies, as will 

 appear from the following defcriptions. 



i, Fay-ye, or (Gobius feStinirofirh Linn.) 

 The membrana branchiofiega has four very final! 

 rays; the dorfal fins are afh- coloured, with 

 blue tranfverfal lines, and black fpots at the 

 bottom: the firfl dorfal fin is higher, reaches 

 from oppofite the bread, to the middle of the 

 back, and has fix rays ; the ficcnd has twenty- 

 fix very lhort rays, and reaches from the middle 

 of the back, to over-againii the anus ; the 

 pecloral fins have eighteen rays ; the fingle 

 ventral fin is infundibuliform, fits clofe to the 

 head, and has ten rays; the anal fin has twenty- 

 fix parallel rays : all the fins but the dorfal 

 ones are brownifh ; tl;e head is narrow, fmooth, 

 and of the fame breadth with the middle of the 

 body ; the mouth is large and oblong ; the/on?- 

 bead flat; the tongue lacerated and truncated ; 

 the teeth are little, pointed, {trait, unequal in the 

 upper jaw ; they (land only in one row, in tfce 

 middle 2.x c few, in the lower jaw they fill. up 

 she whole margin; the lips are fhort, and do 



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