NATURAL HISTORY 



OP 



THE FISHES LYHABITUVG THE 



miYEU OHIO 



AND ITS TRIBUTARY STREAMS, 



preceded by a physical descriptian of the Ohio and its branches. 



BY C. S. gAFINESQUE, 



^'7hnT.l t ^l^^7 ^"^ /^^turalTJistory in Transylvania University, Au- 

 Ph 1n/^h^ ^''f^''' of Nature, &c. &c. Member of the Literary and 

 Phi osophical Society of New-York, the Historical Societv ofNevv-York. 

 theLyceumoNauiral History of New York, the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Societv, the Koval 

 Institute of Natural Sciences of Naples, the Italian Society of \rts and 

 Sciences, ihe Medical Societies of Lexington and Cincinnati, £tc. &c. 



The art of seeing well, or- of noticmg and distinguishing- -mth accuracv 

 the objects tvhich vje percetve, is a high faculty of the mind, un foiled in feli 

 *nchvidmil8, and despised btjthone -who can neither aegutre it, nor appreciate 



LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY: 



^•BI^^T^o rou the luxaoE by w. o. huijt. (psics oje »0ijaii. 

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