Bailan. 
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clofe or open it at pleafure, by means 
of certain mufcles, which alfo affift it 
in protruding or drawing it in. Pliny 
{peaking of his Acipenfer, makes it 
fynonymous with the Elops, Quidam 
enim ELopeM vocant. 
This is a kind of Wrafe*, fent from 
Scarborough by Mr. Travis, differing 
from the other fpecies. They appear 
during fummer in great fhoals off 
Filey-Bridge: the largeft weigh about 
five pounds. 
It was of the form of the common 
wrafe, only between the dorfal fin 
and the tail was a confiderable fink- 
_ ing: above the nofe was a deep fulcus: 
on the fartheft cover of the gills was a 
depreffion radiated from the center. 
It had only four branchioftegous 
rays. 
The dorfal fin had thirty-one rays, 
twenty fpiny, eleven foft; the laft 
branched, and much longer than the 
{piny rays. 
The pectoral fins had fourteen; the 
ventral fix; the firft of which was 
fhort and fpiny: the anal twelve; the 
three firft fpiny, the nine others 
branched and foft. 
* Vide p. 203. 
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