Clafs IV. G ROA CY 17 1 NOG, 263 
to that of thyme; but we never could perceive any 
particular fmell. 
It is a fifh of an n elegant form ; lefs deep than that 
‘of a trout: the largeft we ever heard of was taken 
hear Ludlow, nicht was above half a yard long, and 
weighed four pounds fix ounces, but this was a eo 
rare inftance.* 
The irides are filvery, tinged with yellow : he 
teeth very minute, feated in the jaws and the toof of 
the mouth, but none on the toneue: the head is 
dufky : the covers of the gills of a gloffy green: 
the back and fides of a fine filvery erey, but when 
the fifth is juft taken, varied flightly with blue and 
gold: the fide-line is ftrait. 
The feales large, and the lower edges dik, 
forming {trait rows from head to tail. 
. The firft dorfal fin has twenty-one rays; the three 
er four firft are the fhorteft, the others almoft of 
equal lengths ; this fin is fo all the others are 
plain. 
- The tail is much forked 
S VIII, The 
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