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them. Till- teeth nre named aeeordin^ to tlic hones upon 

 whieh they are placed ; and are referred to, as niaxiUarx , 

 intermaxilhuN , pahitine, vomerine, i^'c. — depending; upon their 

 position." 



A nreri-nee to paj^e !'.> wdl sh()\\ thi' situation of tlie teeth 

 in thi' Trout, with five rows on the U[)per surfaee of the mouth, 

 and finu* rows heh)W ; the partieuhw hones upon which these 

 rows are phieed, are also referred to. 



Mr. > arrel then proceeds to descant, somewhat too hirjiely 

 for extraction in a work of this description, on the form, position, 

 and uses of tl»e various teeth in difterent families of fishes ; 

 hut the gist of his remarks I prefer comhininj; under the heads 

 of the various fishes to which thevbelonj;; and I shall only 

 add here, that in some species the teeth are arranjjed as in the 

 .*?fl/»/joHiV/<p, in duplicate or triplicate rows of single teeth ; in 

 others in dense patclies, occupying sometimes the greater part 

 of the palate, set like the bristles on a shoe-brush, as the 

 Esocida: or Pike family ; and again in others, as the species 

 /v«/>rfl.r, of the family PerrULo, to wjiieh belongs our own nohle 

 Striped Bass, they cover the wliole tongue, besides being thickly 

 set on the palate. 



Tl»e position and shape of these teeth indicate as clearly the 

 habits, mode of feeding, and the food, of the various families 

 to which they belong, as do the teeth of the carnivorous, 

 mminnting, or gnawing (piadrupeds iid'orm the naturalist 

 whether the creature, of which the jaw-bone only lies before 

 liim, fed on animal sidjstances, on grass, on gniin, or on the 

 bark and hard-shellc<l nuts of trees; or as the beaks and 

 bills of birds tell the ex|)crienced l«M)kcr-ou whether thr 



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