OR 



NATURAL HISTORY 



OF 



THE FISHES WWlBiTlKG THE 

 mVE.^ ORIO 



AND ITS TRIBUTARY STREAMS, 

 Preceded by a physical description of the Ohio and its branches. 



BYC. S. RAFINESQUE, 



Professor of Botany and Natural History in Transylvania University, Au- 

 thor of the Analysis of Nature, Stc. &c. Member of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of New-York, the Historical Society of New-York, 

 the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, the Royal 

 Institute of Natural Sciences of Naples, the Italian Society of Arts and 

 Sciences, the Medical Societies of Lexington and Cincinnati, &c. 8cc 



The art of seeing -well, or of noticing and distinguishing wtlh accuracy 

 the objects -u/hich we perceive, is a high faculty of the mind, unfolded in few 

 individuals, and despised by those -who can neither acquire ity nor appreciate 

 itt results. 



LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY 



PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BT W. O. HUNT. (PBICE ODE BOLLAR.^ 



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