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f, Dcfcnptlon of four remarkable Ft/hes^ taken 71 ear I be Pifcataqaa 



in New Hampfyire. ' By WILLIAM D. PECK, Efq. A.A.S. '^ 



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X. HAT part of 'tKe" Atlantic wliich wallies the extenfive 

 fea coaft of MafTachufQtts, aflbrcls a confiderable number of 

 Fifhes, many of which are. but little known ; and very few 

 have been fyftematically noticed. This is not furpriling; 



when it is confidcred that our fiihermen are very inattentive 



to any but fuch as ^re efteemed fit for food. Of thefe the 

 number Is comparatively, fmall, nor are the ipecific characters- 

 of them as yet afcertained. Four Fiflies of diiFerent genera 



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The firft, (Plate II. fig. i.) was brought me by a boy w^ho 



called it a white eel. The head of this filh is naked and whit 

 ifli ; the vertex flatted, the upper and hinder edge of the orbit 

 a httle elevated. The noftrils are tubular, and iituated nea 

 the extremity of the fnout, wliich is obtufe. 



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The upper jaw is Hiorter than the lower, and furniihed with 



double row of fmall teeth j and a fingi 



of larg 



ed teeth, inferted in the margin of the palate. The 



jaw is witliout a beard ; the front teeth in a 

 lateral ones in a double row, all curving back 



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