Class IV. CAR P. 353 



The mouth without teeth. ^L # CARP, 



Three branchioftegous rays. 

 One dorial fin. 



* With bearded mouths. 



Kvwpivot? drift. Hift. an. lib. Cyprinus cirris quatuor, ofli- 165, Carp, 

 IV. 8. VI. 40. VIII. zo. H. 30. culo tertio pinnarum doiTi, 

 Oppian Halieut. I. 101. 592. ac ani uncinulis armato. 



Raina Burbara. Sal<vian. 92. Arted. Jynon. 3. 



La Carpe. Belon, z6j. Cyprinus carpio. C. pinna ani 



Cyprinus. Rondel, flwviat. 150. radiis 9. cirris 4, pinna dor- 

 Gefner pifc. 309. falis radio fecundo poftice 



Cyprinus nobilis, edle Karpe, ferrato. Lin. Jyp. 525. &•<?* 

 KarpfFe. Schonevelde, 32. nov. Zooph. No. 330. 



Carp. WiL Ictb. 245. Raii Jyn. Karp. Faun. Suae No. 359. 

 pifc 115. 



THIS is one of the naturalized fifh of our coun- 

 try, having been introduced by Leonard 

 Mafcbal, about the year 1514*, to whom we were 

 alfo indebted for that excellent apple xhepepin. The 

 many good things that our ifland wanted before 

 that period, are enumerated in this old diftich : 



Turkies, carps, hops, pickerel, and beer, 

 Came into England all in one year, f 



As 



• Fuller's Britijb Worthies, Sufex. 113. 



f I infert this note to fhew that it was known here before. 

 The extract was made from the Boke of St. Alborfs printed at 

 Weftminfier, by Wynkyn de Worde, in the year 1496. I think 

 jmyfelf much obliged to Mr. Haworth, in Chancery -la?ie, not 

 only for this but feveral other curious remarks. 



' The carpe is a dayntous fifshe, but there ben but fewe in 



* Englonde 9 and therfore I wry te the cafle of rum. For he is 



* too ftronge enarmyd in the mouthe that there may noo weke 



* harnays hold hym. And as touchyne his baytes, I have but 



* Jytyll knoolege of it, and we were loth to wryte more than 

 Voj,,III. A a • I know 



