Class IV. SMELT. $15 



mans, for a very different reafon, diftinguifli it by 

 the elegant title of Stinckfifch *. 



Smelts are often fold in the ftreets of London 

 fplit and dried. They are called dried Sparlings, 

 and are recommended as a relifli to a glafs of wine 

 in the morning. 



It is a fifh of a very beautiful form and colour : 

 the head is tranfparent, and the fkin in general fo 

 thin, that with a good microfcope the blood may 

 be obferved to circulate. 



The irides are filvery : the pupil of a full black : Descrip, 

 the under jaw is the longed : in the front of the 

 upper jaw are four large teeth ; thofe in the fides 

 of both are fmall; in the roof of the mouth are 

 two rows of teeth ; on the tongue two others of 

 large teeth. 



The firft dorfal fin has eleven rays ; the pectoral 

 fins the fame number ; the # ventral eight - 9 the anal 

 fourteen. 



The fcales are fmall, and readily drop off: the 

 tail confifts of nineteen rays, and is forked. 



The color of the back is whitifh, with a caft of 

 green, beneath which it is varied with blue, and 

 then fucceeds a beautiful glofs of a filvery hue. 



* And not without reafon, if we may .depend on Linnaus, 

 who fays there are in the Baltic two varieties, the one, which 

 is called Nors, fcetidijfimus, Jierccris inftar, which in the early 

 fpring, when the peafants corne to buy it, fills all the ftreets 

 of Vpfal with the fmell. He adds, that at this feafon agues 

 reign there. Faun. fuec. /, 125, 



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