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Chromis. 



Sinussa mackrel, soles Dinarchus deals, 

 Herculia mullets, and Amalphi eels ; 

 With blooming girls Parthenope is gay; — 

 Who now shall bid me search elsewhere for prey ? 



Iolas. 



Gudgeon in rivers, dragonet in weeds, 

 Squid 'midst the rocks, in open water feeds 

 The lamprey ; I my Nisa's threshold court ; 

 What happier island has so good a port ? 



Mopsus. 



Thus I remember how the rocks among 

 With various strife they safe and shelter'd sung; 

 And praise and presents earn'd, befitting those 

 To whom his commendation Triton shows ; 

 One gets the shell I div'd from Circe's ground, 

 With specks and purple beautified around ; 

 The other gains a coral in its pride, 

 With knobs and branches well diversified. 



NOTE Z. 



This is the general opinion at Albany, and is alluded to by Dr. Mitchill, in a letter 

 to the Reverend Dr. Miller, {Collections of the New-York Historical Society, vol. 1.) 

 where he says, " It is reported that the course of the herrings was more especially on 

 the west side of the river." This fish is not of the same species which abounds at parti- 

 cular seasons in the European seas, as Dr. Mitchill has satisfactorily shown. The Euro- 

 pean herring not only differs in its appearance, but in its manners ; it never, like ours, de- 

 posites its spawn in the waters of fresh rivers. Catesby seems to have given currency to 



