Class IV. THREE SPINED S. BACK« 



261 



Three branchioftegous rays. 

 The belly covered with bony plates. 

 One dorfal fin, with feveral fharp fpinjes between It 

 and the head. 



XXVIIL 



STLCKLE 



BACK. 



La Grande Efpinoche, un 



Epinard, une Artiere. Be- 



Ion, 328. 

 Pifciculi aculeati prlus genus. 



Rondel, f.^vi at, 206. Gefner 



pi/c, 8. 

 Stickleback, Banftickle, or 



Sharpling. Wil. Icth, 341. 



Raiijyn. pi/c. 145, 



Gafterofteus aculeis in dorfo 



tribus. Arted. fynon. 80. 

 Gafterofteus aculeatus. Lin. 



fyji. 489. Grono'v, Zocph. 



No. 406. 

 Spigg, Horn-fifk. Faun, Suec, 



No. 336. 

 Stichling, Stachel-fifch. Wulf 



Borufs, No. 37. 



129. Thiiee 

 Spike0« 



THESE are common in many of our rivers^ 

 but no where in greater quantities than in 

 the Fens of Lincolnjhire^ and fome of the rivers 

 that creep out of them. At Spalding there are, 

 once in feven or eight years, amazing (hoals that 

 appear in the Welland^ and come up the river in 

 form of a vaft column. They are fuppofed to be 

 the multitudes that have been wafhed out of the 

 fens by the floods of feveral years, and colledled in 

 fome deep hole, till overcharged with numbers, 

 they are periodically obliged to attempt a change 

 of place. The quantity is fo great, that they are 

 ufed to manure the land, and trials have been made 



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