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. rows of teeth; on the tongue two others of large 
teeth. 
The firft dorfal fin has eleven rays; the pectoral 
fins the fame number ; the ventral eight ; the — 
fourteen. 
The fcales are fmall, and readily drop off: the 
tail confifts of nineteen rays, and is forked. 
The color of the back is whitifh, with a caft of 
ereen, beneath which it is varied with blue, and then 
fucceeds a beautiful glofs of a filvery hue. 
South- Befides this fpecies is another, which was commu- 
fant. nicated to us by the Hon. Daines Barrington, who 
defcribes it in thefe words: 
The Southampton {melt agrees with the common 
kind in having two back fins, but both of them are 
radiated ; the firft with eight radii, the fecond with 
twelve; the belly fins have only five or fix radi: 
the upper jaw is longer than the lower, and has a 
few teeth, whereas the lower has none: in color, 
tranfparency of the back and head, filver ftripes 
on the fides, forked tail, &c. it agrees nearly with 
the former, but has nothing of the violet fmell or 
tafte. It fwarms in that fea, and is the common bait 
for whiting, mackrell, flat-fifh, &c. It is eaten 
fried, is tender and fweet, and without any {mall 
bones, but muft be gutted before it is dreffed. It 
erows to three or four inches in length, but is com- 
monly much lefs. 
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