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contain nearly as many species as all the other 

 orders put together; and this being the fact, we 

 have now reached a very natural and suitable oc- 

 casion for bringing our First Volume to a close. In 

 the Second, we must take a survey of the Three 

 Orders of the Soft-rayed Osseous Fishes, and of the 

 Two Orders of the Cartilaginous Fishes, which 

 completes the whole list, adding the Synopsis. 

 These, we need scarcely add, contain a still more 

 varied, and not less interesting succession of groups 

 than the beautiful and interesting Series whose 

 contemplation we must now leave, and not without 

 regret. 



Our plenteous streams a various race supply : 

 The bright-eyed Perch, with fins of varied dye ; 

 The silver Eel, in shining volumes rolled ; 

 The yellow Carp, in scales bedropt with gold ; 

 Swift Trouts, diversified with crimson stains ; 

 And Pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. 



END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 



