PISCES—ANCHOVY...PIKE. 735 
THE ANCHOVY? 
Is about six inches anda half in length. The body is slender, but thicker 
in propertion than the herring. The scales are large, and easily fall off. 
The back is green, and semipellucid; the sides and belly si'very; and the 
tail forked. ‘ 
At different seasons it frequents the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean 
sea, passing through the Straits of Gibraltar towards the Levant in the 
months of May, June, and July. The greatest fishery is at Gorgona, a small 
isle west of Leghorn, where they are taken at night in nets, into which they 
are allured by lights fixed to the stern of the vessels. When cured, their 
heads are cut off, their gall and entrails taken out, then salted and packed 
in barrels. It scarce needs to be mentioned that, being put on the fire. they 
dissolve in almost any liquor. They are well tasted when fresh. But ithas 
been found by experience, that anchovies taken thus by torch light are 
neither so good, so firm, nor so proper for keeping, as those which are taken 
otherwise. From December to March, vast numbers are caught on the 
shores of Provence and Catalonia, and during June and July in the English 
channel, and in the environs of Bayonne, Venice, Rome, and Genoa. From 
the anchovy the ancients prepared one of the liquids called garum, which 
was in high repute among epicures. 
THE, PIKE? 
{fs common in most of the lakes of Europe, but the largest are those taken 
in Lapland, which, according to Scheffer, are sometimes eight feet long. 
They are taken there in great abundance, dried and exported for sale.. The 
largest fish of this kind which we have ever heard of in England, weighed 
thirtf-five pounds. 
1 Engraulis encrasicolus, Cuv. The genus Engraulis has the ethmoid and nasal bones 
forming a projecting point, below which the very small intermaxillaries are fixed ; maxi. 
lary bones straight and very long; jaws much cleft, and both furnished -vith teeth ; bron. 
chial openings large. 
2 Esor lucius, Lix. The genus Esox has the snout long, obtuse, broad, and de ressed 
Jong-pointed teeth on the sides of the lower jaw; the intermaxillaries, vomer, palate and 
tongue furnished with small and crowded teeth; one dorsal fin opposite the anal one. 
