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SMELT SALMON. 



Class IT. 



9. Smelt. Epelan de mer. Belon, 282. 



Eperlanus. Rondel. Jluviat. 



196. Gesner pise. 362. 

 Spirincus et Stincus. Gesner. 



Paralip. 29. 

 A Spyrling a Sprote. Turner 



epist. ad Gesn. 

 Stindt, et Stinckfisch. Scko- 



nevelde, 70. 

 A Smelt. Wil. Ichth. 202. 



Rail Syn. pise. 66. 

 Osmerus radiis pinnae ani sep- 



tendecim. Arted. Synon. 21. 

 Salmo Eperlanus. S. capite 



diaphano, radiis pinnae ani 



septendecim. Lin. Syst. 



511. Gm. Lin. 1375. Gro- 



nov. Zuoph. No. 4Q. 

 Nors, Slom. Faun. Suec- No. 



350. 

 L'Eperlan. Duhamel Tr. des 



Pesches, ii. 229. tab. 4. 



fg- !■ 



L'Eperlan de Mer. Block 

 ichth. i. 145. tab. 28./. 1. 



L'Osmere eperlan. De la Ce- 

 pede Hist, des Poisso?is, v. 

 231. 



JL HE smelt* inhabits the seas of the northern 

 parts of Europe, and we believe never is found 

 as far south as the Mediterranean : the Seine is 

 one of the French rivers which receives it, but 

 whether it is found south of that, we have not at 

 present authority to say. If we can depend 

 on the observations of navigators, who generally 

 have too much to think of to attend to the mi- 

 nutice of natural history, these fish are taken in 

 the straits of Magellan^ and of a most surpris- 

 ing size, some measuring twenty inches in 

 length, and eight in circumference. 



* Bloch considers this as a variety of the Salmo eperlanus, or 

 T Eperlan, which is an inhabitant of lakes. Ed. 

 f Narboroug/i's Voy. 123. 



