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the green colour of the back goes a little be* 

 low it, but further down it is white. The 

 bread and the belly are covered as it were 

 with thick threads, or white pipes, which are 

 beft obferved by ftroking the fifh with the 

 hand upwards from the belly to the head* 

 Behind the pectoral fins ran two brown-yellow 

 fpots from the back, and a circle of the fame 

 colour furrounded the dorfal-fin : the fpot in 

 the circle is black. The head is fomewhat 

 flat, and oval : the mouth round and fmall : 

 the jaws are equal, and confiit of two flat 

 bones. In the midfl of the mouth two teeth 

 are vifible, which are covered with moveable 

 lips : the tongue is fomewhat round : the eyes 

 are fmall, naked, and round : the pupil in the 

 eye is black : the irides are yellow : the no- 

 flrils are fmall, and clofe to the eyes. The 

 filh was taken in the river at Canton ; and a 

 civil failor, who was prefent when the Chinefe 

 caught it, gave it to me. 



The 25 th of September* 

 Fine weather. 



A little bird, which was a good finger, 

 Was fhot about the rice fields, whither it retort- 

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