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except Mr. Pennant; and it is not less extraor- 

 dinary, that it should be found only in the 

 rivers connected with the Mersey, in Lan- 

 cashire. Mr. Pennant's observations on this 

 fish, extracted from his u Journey to Scot- 

 land, vol. i. page 11," are here subjoined: 



" In the Mersey near Warrington, (and in 

 the river Alt, which runs by Sephton, Lan- 

 cashire, into the Mersey near Formby) a 

 fish called the Graining is taken, which in 

 some respects resembles the Dace ; yet it is 

 a distinct and perhaps new species : the 

 usual length is seven inches and a half, and 

 it is rather more slender than the Dace ; the 

 body is almost strait, that of the other incur- 

 vated : the colour of the scales in this is 

 silvery, with a bluish cast — those of the 

 Dace have a yellowish or greenish tinge: 

 the eyes, the ventral and the anal fins in the 

 Graining, are a pale colour." > 



As they rise freely at the fly they afford 



