Clafs IV. AUNVOe) PD OW, 295 
The {prat grows to about the length of five Deter, 
inches: the body is much deeper than that of a 
young herring of equal length: the back fin is 
placed more remote from the nofe than that of the 
herring, and we think had fixteen rays. But the 
ereat diftinétion between this fifh, the herring and 
pilchard, is the belly: that of the two firft being 
quite fmooth, that of the laft moft ftrongly fer- 
rated. 
ee the ALIN Go ERO VAY. 
E’yugauaras ? Arif. Hiff. an. Lycoftomus, fehe mareneken ? 
ho. Vi. c. 15. Schonevelde. 46. tab. 5. 
Eyxoacingoros ? Athenceus. lid. mn sre ee Leth. 225. Raii 
Vile ¢. 28r. oe . 
? Clupea aan fuperiore lon- 
L’Anchoy ? Belon. 165. Bore aug an 
Encraficholus? Rondel 211, sever 
Gefner pift. 68. Des encraficolus. Lin. /y/t. 
HIE true anchovies are taken in vaft quanti- 
ties in the Mediterranecn, and are brought 
over here pickled. The great fifhery is at Gorgona, 
a {mall ifle weft of Lepper. 
Mr. Ray difcovered what he fufpected to be the 
fame fifh in the fea near Chefter*, where he de- 
{cribed them. Notwithftanding I live near that city, 
and have been affured by my fifherman that they are 
found in our eftuary, it never has been my fortune 
to procure one. 
* Ray’s Letters, 47: 
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