OR 



NATURAL HISTORY 



OF 



THE FISHES INHABITING THE 



AND ITS TRIBUTARY STREAMS, 

 Preceded by a physical description of the Ohio, and its branches. 



BY- C. S. RAFINESQUE, 



Professor of Botany and Natural History in Transylvania University, Au- 

 thor of the Analysis of Nature, &c. &c. Member of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of New-York, the Historical Society ofNew-York, 

 the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, the Royal 

 Institute of Natural Sciences of Naples, the Italian Society of Arts and 

 Sciences, tbe Medical Societies of Lexington and Cincinnati, be. &c 



The art of teeing well, or of noticing- and distinguishing with accuracy 

 the objects which vie perceive, is a high faculty of the mind, unfolded in few 

 individuals, and despised by those who' can neither acquire it, nor appreciate 

 its results. 



LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY; 



PRINTED FOR TBE AUTHOR BI W. O. BUNT. (PBICE ODE DOLLAR.} 



1830. 



