THE ROACH. 29^ 



The dace * haunts the fame places as the roach ; like 

 it, too, it is a great breeder, very lively, and during 

 fummer, fond of gamboling on the furface of the water. 

 Its colour is a mixture of brown and yellow ; the fcales 

 are fmaller than thofe of the roach ; the length of this 

 lifh is feldom above ten inches. 



The graining is a fidx fo nearly refembling the dace, 

 that perhaps it may be confidered merely as a variety : 

 The ufual lize is from fix to eight inches ; it is caught 

 in the Merfey near Warrington, 



l!he GoU-JiJh f . 



1 HIS fpecies was firft. introduced into England froni 

 Chifia, in 1 691 ; and that fpecimen havmg Deen deflroy- 

 ed, they were again imported about thirty years ago in 

 a confiderable quantity. From that time tliey have mul- 

 tiplied greatly in the neighbourhood of Lo?ido?i, znA from 

 thence have been gradually difperfed over the reft '?f the 

 kingdom, where they now breed as freely in the open 

 water as the carp. 



The moft beautiful fpecies of thefe fillies are kept in 



China for the amufeinent of people of rank, llicy are 



confined in fmall porcelain veffeis, and placed in the 



courts to decorate the entrances of the houfes belonging 



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* Cyprlnus leucifcus, Lin. Syft. 



f Cyprlnu? Auratus, Lin. Syft. Kin-yu, Du Halde HiA. Chln^. 



