Vik. The. SME, Ba ee 
Epelan de mer. Belon. 282. A Smelt. Wil Icth. 202. Raw 
Eperlanus. Rondel. fuviat.196.  — fyus pife. 66. 
Gefner pifc. 362. Ofmerus radiis pinnz ani fep- 
- Spirincus et /Stincus. Gefner tendecim. Aried. fynon. 21. 
Paralip. 29 Salmo eperlanus. S. capite di-. 
A Spyrling a : Sprote. Turner aphano, radiis pinne ani 
efift. ad. Gefn. feptendecim. Lin, fff. 511¢ 
Stindt, et Stinckfifch. kee: Gronov. Zooph. No. _ 
véldes 70. Nors, Slom. Faun. fuec. No.3 50% 
HE {melt inhabits the feas of the northern 
parts of Europe, and we believe never is found 
as far fouth as the Mediterranean: the Seine is one, 
of the Freach rivers which receive it, but whether 
it is found fouth of that, we have not at prefent 
authority to fay. If we can depend on the obfere 
vations of navigators, who generally have too much 
to think of to attend to the minutie of natural hif- 
tory, thefe fifh are taken in the ftraits of Magel- 
lan *™, and of a moft furprifing fize, fome meafuring 
twenty inches in length, and eight in circumference. 
They inhabit the feas that wafh thefe iflands the 
whole year, and never go very remote from fhore, 
except when they afcend the rivers. It is remarked: 
in certain rivers that they appear a long time before. 
they fpawn, being taken in great abundance in No- 
wember, December, and January, in the Thames and 
ee, but in others not till February, and in Marge 
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