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high and angular, then grows narrow, furrounds the 
tail, and ends near the anus. 
The color of the back is brown or dufky, and 
fometimes mixed with blue; the whole under-fide 
filvery. Thefe are found in the Thames, Severn, and 
Dee, are potted with the larger kind, and are by 
fome preferred to it, as being milder tafted. Vat 
quantiti esare taken about Mortlake, and fold to the 
Duich for bait for their turbot and cod fifhery. 
My) he eR Oe) ty 
Une Civelle, un Lamproyon. eae branchialis. Line 
Belon. 67. Sif. 3 
Lampetra parve et fluviatilis. 
Rondel. pifc. fl. 202. 
ae minima. Ge/ner pic. 
98. 
Pride. Plot. Oxf. 182. plate x. 
Lampern, or Pride of the J/s. 
Lin- ahh. Pa Juec. No. 291- 
Petromyzon pinna dorfali 
pofteriori lineari, Jabio oris 
latere poftico lobato. Ibid. 
Uhlen. Kram. 384. 
Gronov. Zooph. No. 160. 
Wil Icth. 104. Rait fyn. pife.35- 
E, 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, par- 
ticularly the J/s, but not peculiar to that county, 
being found in others of the Engli/h rivers, where, 
qittedd of concealing themfelves under the ftones, 
they lodge themfelves ; in the mud, and never are ob- 
ferved to adhere to any thing like other lampreys. 
The body is marked with numbers of tranfverfe 
lines, that pafs crofs the fides from the back to the 
bottom of the belly, which is divided from the 
mouth to the anus by a ftrait line. 
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