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Is the largeft of the genus Afelli, by authors called Afellus 
Maximus, and fometimes Afellus Varius, five Striatus. It 
is diftinguifhed from other fifhes of the fame kind by the 
following marks. Its colour on the back and fides is a dufky 
olive, intermixed with yellow fpots; a white belly, with a 
white line running along each fide from the gills to the tail, 
which is curved at the abdomen, but ftraight elfewhere. It 
has very finall fcales, which adhere firmly to the fkin; its 
eyes are large; a fingle beard hangs at the angle of its lower 
jaw, whichis fhort, feldom longer than one’s finger. It has a 
broad tongue, and feveral rows of teeth, one being much longer 
than the reft. Among thefe there are fome moveable teeth, as 
in the Pike; and in the palate, near the orifice of the ftomach, 
and near the gills, it has fmall clufters of teeth; it has three 
back-fins, two at the gills, two at the breaft, and two at the 
anus; and the tail is plain. 
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