Clafs IV. Be) By Br Be a | 315 
DSI (oe MMM & nll 0 GR aici We alg 
Alburnus. Aujfon. Mofella. 126. aniofficulorum viginti. 4r- 
Able ou Ablette. Belox. 319. ted. fynon. 10. 
Alburnus. Rondel. fuviat. 208. Cyprinus alburnus. Lin. ff. 
’ Gefner. pifc. 23. 531. Gronov. Zooph. No. 336. 
Albula minor. Witinck, Witek Loja. Faun. fuec. No. 373 
and Blike. Schonevelde. ii. Spitilauben, {chneiderfifchl. 
tab. 1. Kram. 395- 
Bleak. Wil. Ith. 263. Raii fin. Ukeleyen. Wulff. Borufs. No. 
pife. 123. 64. 
Cyprinus quincuncialis, pinna 
HE taking of thefe, u/onius lets us know, 
was the fport of children, 
ALBURNOS predam puerilibus hamis.. 
They are very common in many of our rivers, 
and keep together in large fhoals, Thefe fifth feem 
at certain feafons to be affected with the vertigo ; 
they tumble about near the furface of the water, and 
are incapable of {wimming far from the place, but 
in about two hours recover, and difappear. Fifh 
thus affected the Thames fifhermen call mad dleaks. 
Artificial pearls are made with the fcales of this 
fifth, and we think of the dace. ‘They are beat into 
a fine powder, then diluted with water, and intro- 
duced into a thin glafs bubble, which is afterwards 
filled with wax. T he French were the inventors of 
this art. Doctor Liffer* tells us, that when he was 
at Paris, a certain artift ufed in one winter thirty 
hampers full of fifh in this manufacture. 
* Journey to Paris, 142. 
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pearls, 
