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218 NATURAL HISTORY [Fishes. 



small and crusty to make a dish of; the same fault may be 

 objected against making a bait of them. They are got in no 

 quantities to use them as a manure, which Mr Pennant tells 

 us they do elsewhere *, and, in a word, no profit can be made 

 of them any way. 



GENUS ZX— THE MACKEREL. 



Gen, CAar.— Seven branchiostegous rays ; several small fins between the dorsal 



fiu and the tail. 



Species 1. — The Mackerel. 



Mackrell or Macarel, ?f^i/. Icth. 181. RaiiSj/n. Pisc.58. Scomber Scomber, 

 Lin. Sys. 492. Brit. Zool. QQl. Brit. Zool. Illust. tab. 9S,fig. 2. Sib. 

 Scot. 24. 



Mackerel set into our sounds in vast shoals the last week 

 of July, or first of August. I have been informed by sea-far- 

 ing people of their falling in with the beginning of the macke- 

 rel shoal a good way to the eastward of Copinsha, and it has 

 continued till they came within the sound called Ham Sound : 

 this in the first week of August. 



Notwithstanding of the quantity, and the certainty of the 



* Vide British Zoology, p. 217. 



