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As iche Buchs Efox of Linneus. It has a very flat head; the 
upper jaw is broad, and fhorter than the lower, which turns up 
a little at the end; the body is long, flender, and comprefied 
fideways; the teeth are very fharp, difpofed only in the front 
of the upper jaw, but in both fides of the lower; fometimes 
in the roof of the mouth, and frequently in the tongue. 
The eyes are fmall, and the flit of the mouth very wide; the. 
dorfal fin is placed very low on the back, and confifts of twenty- 
one rays; the pedtoral of fifteen, the ventral of eleven, and 
the anal, of eighteen; the tail is bifurcated. 
They are to be found in moft of the lakes in Europe. 
Lapland produces very large ones, fome eight feet lone; they 
are dried there, and exported for fale. | | 
The Pike was introduced into England in the reign of Henry 
VIII. in 1537, when a Pike was fold for double the price 
of a houfe lamb in February.  Befides its ufual food, fith and 
frogs, it devours water-rats and young ducks. It is remark- 
able for its longevity: we read of one that lived till ninety 
years old, and of another that was no lefs than two hundred 
and feventy years old. they 
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