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to a stone or root, along a muddy bottom, heading 

 towards the stream. Is this not similar to the 

 loche of Europe ? Where it is not often disturb- 

 ed it attains the length of a foot and a half, 

 weighing one or two pounds. It is a favorite sport 

 of country lads to follow a rivulet and spear them 

 by torch-light. As food, they are not very much 

 prized. 



Mr Bruce, the keeper of the Boston light-house, 

 has politely forwarded a strange fish which he 

 found in a lobster pot, that was unknown to him 

 or any of the fishermen in his service, which has 

 a mouth precisely like the fish above described ; 

 but the body, instead of being round, is quite thin 

 and wide, back of the gills. The color is silvery, 

 mottled with dark waving lines. It is in length 

 about ten inches, and appropriately denomina- 

 ted the sea-sucker. 



GEN. ABRAMIS. 



Bream, — Abramis Chrysoptera. Commonly 

 the bream in this part of the country is small, not 

 exceeding seven or eight inches. The body is 

 slender, sides silvery, the abdomen tinged with 

 red ; and the anal fin has fortyone rays. 



