Class IV. SMELT. 315 



mans, for a very different reafon, dillinguilli it by 

 the elegant: title of Stinckfifch ^. 



Smelts are often fold in the flreets of London 

 fplit and dried. They are called dried Sparlings, 

 and are recommended as a relifh to a glafs of wine 

 in the morning. 



It is a filh of a very beautiful form and colour : 

 the head is tranfparent, and the Ikin in general fo 

 thin, that with a good microfcope the blood may 

 be obferved to circulate. 



The irides are filvery : the pupil of a full black : Descrip. 

 the under jaw is the longed : in the front of the 

 upper jaw are four large teeth \ thofe in the fides 

 of both are fmall ; in the roof of the mouth are 

 two rows of teeth; on the tongue two others of 

 large teeth. 



The firil dorfal fin has eleven rays ; the pedorai 

 fins the fame number ^ the ventral eight; the anal 

 fourteen. 



The fcales are fmall, and readily drop off: the 

 tail confids of nineteen rays, and is forked. 



The color of the back is whitifh, with a cad of 

 green, beneath which it is varied with blue, and 

 then fucceeds a beautiful glofs of a filvery hue. 



* And not without reafbn, if we may depend on Limiaus^ 

 who fays there are in the Baltic two varieties, the one, which 

 ib called Nors, fceiidiffimus, Jiercoris injfar, which in the early 

 fpring, when the peafants come to buy it, f.IIs all the ftreets 

 of Up/ul with the fmell. He adds, that at this feafon agues 

 rtign there. Faun, fuec, />. 125, 



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