GALIAN. 



French origin, and is principally practised at Paris, 

 which city has long been famous for this elegant 

 manufacture: we are informed by Dr. Lister, in 

 his Journey to Paris, that an artist in that city 

 used about thirty hampers-full of Bleak in a single 

 winter. Other bright-coloured fishes may however 

 be used for the same purpose : the scales are said 

 to be first washed, or slightly beaten, in order to 

 afford all the silvery matter with which they are 

 covered, and which, by repeated affusions of water, 

 is purified, and suffered to settle for use : this pre- 

 paration, which is termed oriental essence, is then 

 mixed with a small quantity of melted isinglass, 

 and introduced, by means of proper tubes, into 

 the thin glass beads used in the process, and which 

 are of different casts of colour, as pale rose, blueish, 

 &c. &c, When the silvery matter or essence has 

 been distributed round the whole internal surface 

 of the bead, it is suffered to dry, and, in the ordin- 

 ary kinds, is afterwards filled up with melted wax. 



GALIAN. 



Cyprinus Galian. C, oHvaceus,fusco-maculatus, abdomine rubro, 

 Olivaceous Carp, with brown spots, and red abdomen. 

 Cyprinus Galian. C. pinna ani radiis septcm, dorsali oclo, pec- 

 tor alibus qwtuordecim. fan. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 



AN elegant species : size and habit of a small 

 Gudgeon : scales small, and closely infixed : native 

 of rocky rivers in some parts of Siberia. 



