The Pi CK meRUE I. 
A. VERY common fea fith of the Schomber kind. Its nofe is 
fharp pointed and tapered; its eyes large; and both its jaws 
of the fame length: the teeth are {mall, but very numerous; 
the body comprefled on the fides; towards the tail, it is 
rather flender, and fomewhat angular. ‘The firft dorfal fin is 
placed a little behind the pectoral fin; it is triangular, and 
has nine or ten {tiff rays; the fecond has twelve foft rays, and lies 
at a diftance from the other; the pectoral has twenty, and the 
ventral fix rays: at the bafe of the annal fin, is a long fpine. 
Betwixt the laft dorfal and the tail, are five fmall fins; the 
fame number, likewife, betwixt the anal and the tail. The 
tail is broad and femilunar; the colour of the back and fides 
above the lateral line is beautiful green, variegated with black 
lines pointing downwards; beneath the line, the belly is of 
a beautiful filvery colour. The eyes of the Mackarel are 
almoft covered with a white film, which grows in winter, 
during which time they are nearly blind: they caft it in 
the beginning of fummer. 
It is in high eftimation amoneft the Romans, becaufe it 
furnifhed the precious garum. 
