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slightly carinated, and marked along the middle 

 with a dusky line ; under the tail, commencing 

 at the anus, was a sulcus or groove, six inches 

 and a half long, covered by two longitudinal 

 valves which concealed a multitude of young 

 fish; on crushing this part, hundreds may be 

 observed to crawl out. The general color of 

 the fish was an olive brown : the sides marked 

 with numbers of bluish lines pointing from the 

 back to the belly, which, in dried fish, seemed like 

 the signs of so many joints ; those in a fresh 

 subject ceased beyond the vent ; all beyond that 

 was spotted with brown ; the dorsal fin was nar- 

 row and thin, consisting of forty rays, was two 

 inches long, and placed rather nearer to the 

 head than the tail; the vent was seven inches 

 from the tip of the nose; the body to that orifice 

 was of an equal thickness, but from thence 

 tapered to a very small point, having no mark 

 of a fin ; the pectoral fins had twelve rays ; the 

 anal three. 



When this fish and the next species are dried, 

 they appear covered with numbers of angular 

 crusts, finely radiated from their centre. 



As we want a generical name in our language 

 for this genus, we call it the Pipe Fish, from its 

 slender body. 



