8o 



PRIDE. 



Class IV. 



is high and angular, then grows narrow, furrounds 

 the tail, and ends near the anus. 

 Color. The coloi* of the back is brown or dufky, and 



fometimes mixed with blue; the whole under fide 

 filvery. Thefe are found in the Thaaies^ Severn^ 

 and Dee, are potted with i\\t larger kind, and are 

 by fome preferred to it, as being milder tafted. 

 Vaft quantities are taken about Mortlake, and fold 

 to the T>titch for bait for their cod fifnery. Above 

 ^50,000 have been fold in a feafon at forty {hil- 

 lings per thoufand. Of late, about 10O5OOO have 

 been fent to Harwich for the fame purpofe. It is 

 faid that the Butch have the fecret of preferving 

 them till the Turbot filhery. 



?Q. Pride. ^'^^ Civeile, un Lamproyon. 



Belon, 6j. 

 Lampetra parva et fluviatilis. 



Rondel. pifc.Jl.20Z. 

 Lampreda minima. Gefner 



pijc. 59S. 

 Pride. Plot, Oxf. 182. Plate 



X. 

 Lampern, or Pride of the Ifs. 



Wil Iclh. 1 04. Rail fyn.' 



P^A-' 35- 

 Petromyzon branchialis. Lin, 



fyfi' 394* 



Lin-ahl. Faun. Succ. No. 291. 



Petromyzon pinna dorfali pof- 

 teriori lineari, labio oris 

 latere portico lobato. Ibid, 



Uhlen. Kram. 384. 



Gronov. Zoopb. No. 160. 



WE have feen thefe of the length of eight 

 inches, and about the thicknefs of a fwan's 

 quil, but they are generally much fmaller. 



They are frequent in the rivers near Oxford^ 

 particularly the Ifis^ but not peculiar to that coun- 



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