THE MULLET. 



Description. 



CHAP. VIIL 



" The lavish slare 



Sis thousand pieces for a mullet gave, 

 A sesterce for each pound." 



BRYDSN-. 



THE MULLET. 



MULLETS are something like dace in their 

 shape, but much thicker. The head is almost 

 square, and flat on the top ; the nose blunt and 

 lips thick ; they have no teeth, only the upper 

 lip is a little rough, as is also the tongue; be- 

 tween the eyes and the mouth is a hard callous; 

 the pupil of the eye is black, encircled with a 

 small silvery line ; the color of the back is dusky, 

 varied with blue nnd green ; the sides silvery, 

 marked with broad dusky parallel lines, reaching 

 from head to tail, which is much forked. The 

 scales are large and deciduous, aud are also upon 

 the covers of the gills and head, and extend as 

 far as the nostrils. The largest are nearly half a 

 yard long, and the flesh is excellent. 

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