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I. The BAR Be ee 
Barbus. Au/onius Mofella. 94. tuor, pinna ani officulorum 
Barbeau. Belon. 299. _ feptem. Arted. fynon. 8. 
Barbus, Barbo. Sa/vian.86. | Cyprinus Barbus. C. pinna ani 
Barbus. Rondel. fluviat. 194. radiis 7. Cirris 4. pinne 
Gefuer pile. 123 dorfi radio fecundo utrinque 
Barbe, Barble. B bneneles 2g.  ferrato. Lin. fpf. 525. Gro- 
Barbel. Wil. Icth.259. Raii nov. Zooph. No. 331- 
Syn. pife. 121. Barbe, Barble. Walff Borufs. 
Cyprinus oblongus, maxillafu- = No. 52. 
periore longiore, cirris qua- 
HIS fith was fo extremely coarfe, as to be over- 
looked by the antients till the time of Au/o- 
_#ius, and what he fays is no panegyric on it; for he 
lets us know it loves deep waters, and that when it 
is grown old it was not abfolutely bad. 
Laxos exerces BARBE natatus, 
Tu melior pejore evo, tibi contigit uni 
Spirantum ex numero non inlaudata fenectus. 
It frequents the ftill and deep parts of rivers, and 
lives in fociety, rooting like {wine with their nofes in _ 
the foft banks. It is fo tame as to fuffer itfelf to be 
taken with the hand; and people have been known 
to take numbers by diving for them. In the fummer 
they move about during night in fearch of food, but 
towards autumn, and during winter, confine them- 
felves to the deepeft holes. 
_ They are the worft and coarfeft of frefh water fith, 
~and*feldom eat but by the oe fort of people, 
who 
