THE ANCIENTS. 



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those species which, though bred in salt water, are in 

 the habit of leaving the sea, and running up all estuaries 

 and rivers. He tells us that the experiment was suc- 

 cessful in several rivers, which he calls the Yelius, Sabas- 

 tius, Caminus, Volsinius, &c. 



CANNES DAG ox, Assyrian fish-god. 

 (Jonah, i. 17 ; 1 Sam. v. 4.) 



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