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AMERICAN FISHES. 



water fish of Europe, growing, it is said, to six feet in length, and 

 attainin"; to three hundred weio;ht. 



Dr. Smith includes this species of Silurus in the fishes of Massa- 

 chusetts, and Dr. Flint attributes it to the Ohio and Mississippi, both 

 evidently confounding it with the various indigenous Pimelodes, which 

 it greatly resembles. It difi'ers from the American Pimelodes in hav- 

 ing the anal fin extremely long, extending almost the whole distance 

 from the extremity of the ventral to the origin of the caudal fin. 



