7& LAMPREY. Class IV. 



which enables them to adhere the more flrongly to 

 the ftones, as their cuilom is, and which they do 

 fo firmly as not to be drawn off without fome diffi- 

 culty. 



We have heard of one weighing three pounds, 

 which was taken out of the EJk^ adhering to a ftonc 

 of twelve pounds weight, fufpended at its mouth, 

 from which it was forced with no fmall pains. 



There are in the mouth twenty rows of fmall 

 teeth, difpofed in circular orders, and placed far 

 within. 



The color is dufky, irregularly marked with dir- 

 ty yellow, which gives the filh a difagreeable look. 

 Not the We believe that the ancients were unacquainted 

 With this nih ♦, lo tar is certain, that which Doctor 

 Arhuthnot^ and other learned men, render the word 

 lamprey^ is a fpecies unknown in our feas, being 

 the murana of Ovid^ Pliny^ and others, for which 

 we want an Englijh name. This fifli, the Lupus 

 (our Bafle) and the Myxo* (a fpecies of mullet) 

 formed that pride of Roman banquets, the 'Tripa- 

 tinam -f , fo called according to Arhuthnot^ from 

 their being ferved up in a machine with three bot- 

 toms. 



* Perhaps the fpecies called by Rondeletius, Muge, and 

 Maxon. de Pifc. P. 295. 



f Atque ut luxu quoque aliqua contingat auftoritas figllnis, 

 Tripati/iam, inquit Fenejiella, appellabatur, fumma CJEnarum 

 lautitia. una erat Miiranarumj altera Luporutn, tertia Myxonis 

 pifcis. FUnli Hift. Nat. lib. XXXV. c. 12. 



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