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Genus XIV. Head fender. 
| Body long and fquare. 
Upper lip doubled in. 
Dorfal and anal fin rene 
almoft to the tail. 
Seven branchioftegous rays. 
| LAuUNcE. 
Fat Cit ok a ON Ce 
Ammodytes pifcis, ut nos vo- Sand Eels, or Launces. Rais 
cavimus pro anglico Sandilz. fyn. pife 38, 165. 
Gefner Paralip. 3 Ammodytes* Arted. fynon. 29. 
Tobian, vel Tobics, Sandtfpi- Ammodytes Tobianus. Lin. 
ring. Schonevelde, 76. Sifts 430+ 
Ammodytes. Gefneri Wil. Icth. Tobis. Faun. fuec. 302. Gre: 
113. nov. Zooph. No. 404. 
HE launce is found on moft of our fandy 
fhores during fome of the fummer months : 
it conceals itfelf on the recefs of the tides beneath 
the fand, in fuch places where the water is left at 
the depth of about a foot, and are in fome places 
dug out, in others drawn up by means of a hook 
contrived for that purpofe. They are commonly 
ufed for baits for other fifh, but they are alfo very 
delicate eating. 
Thefe fith are found in the ftomachs of the Por- 
peffe, an argument that the laft roots up the fand with 
its nofe as hogs do the ground. 
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