OR 



NATURAL HISTORY 



OF 



THE FISHES IJ^HABITIJfG THE 

 'S.WYi^ OHIO 



AND ITS TRIBUTARY STREAMS, 

 Preceded by a physical descriptwn of the Ohio and its brancket. 



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 

 P hilosophical Society of New-York, the Historical Society of New-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, the Medical Societies of Lexington and Cincinnati, tec. &c 



The art of seeing vietl, or of noticing and distinguishing valh accuracy 

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

 individuals, and despised by those vho can neither aegmre it, nor appreciate 

 tie reauUt, 



LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY 



FRiNTEO FOK THE AUTROK BT W. u. HUHT. (PBICE CUE DOLLHR.j 



18S0. 



