Class IV, CARP. 353 



The mouth without teeth. XL. CARP. 



Three branchioftegous rays. 

 One dorfal fin. 



* With bearded mouths. 



Ki/Tpiva^? Mft, Hiji, an. lib. Cyprlnus cirris quatuor, ofTi- 165. Carp* 



IV. 8. VI. 40. VIII. 20. II. 30. culo tertio pinnarum dorfi, 



Oppian Halieut.1. 101.592. ac ani uncinuJis armato, 



Raina Burbara. Sahian. 92. Arted.Jynon. 3. 



La Carpe. Belony 26-/, Cyprinus carpio. C. pinna ani 



Cyprinus. RondeL jiuviat* 1 50. radiis 9. cirris 4. pinna dor- 



Gefner pt/c. 309. falis radio fecundo poftice 



Cyprinus nobilis, edle Karpe, ferrate. Lin. Jyj}, 525. GrQ* 



Karpffe. Schone'velde, 32. nov, Zooph. No. 330. 



Carp. WiL Icth. 2J^^, Raii jfyn, Karp. Faun. Suec- No. 359. 

 pifc. 115. 



THIS is one of the naturalized fifli of our coun- 

 try, having been introduced by Leoyiard 

 Mafchaly about the year 1514*, to whom we were 

 alfo indebted for that excellent apple thtpepin. The 

 many good things that our ifland wanted before 

 that period, are enumerated in this old diflich : 



Turkies, carps, hops, pickerel, and beer. 

 Came into England all in one year, f 



As 



* Fuller's Britijh Worthies, Sufex, 113. 



f I infert this note to ihew that it was known here before. 

 The extraft was made from the Boke of St. Alhon^s printed at 

 Wefiminjier, by Wynkyn de Worde^ in the year 1496. I think 

 myfelf much obliged to Mr. Ha^orth, in Chancery-lane, not 

 only for this but feveral other curious remarks. 



• The carpe is a dayntous fifshe, but there ben but fewe in 



• Englonde, and therfore I wryte the cafle of him. For he is 



• too ftronge enarmyd in the mouthe that there may noo weke 



• harnays hold hym. And as touchyne his baytes, I have but 



• Ivtyll knoolege of it, and we were loth to wryte more than 

 V«J.. III. A a * I know 



