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the fiflierman had then ten or twelve fattened to the fhorc r 

 all of which he pulled out andfhewed us. 



I apprehend - that formerly this method of fifhing was 

 oftener praclifed, and better known than it is now, for 1 

 have teen, in fcveral fifhing towns, a tree, in which there 

 was a fifh with a ring through its nofe, and befide it a bell. 

 ■I iikewife imagine that this is the fifli which Mr Norden 

 fays the Kcnnoufs caught at Syene, and which he calls a 

 Carp ; but as I have already obferved, ftreams are not the 

 haunt of leather-mouthed, or fucking fifh, as is the carp, but 

 rather of fuch as arepowerfully furnifhed with fins, as this is, 

 to ilruggle with, and traverfe the current in all its directions* 

 I believe the carp to be a fifh of northern climates ; I have 

 never even fetn them in thefe, they are certainly not in Ethi- 

 opia whence the Nile comes ; their name, Cyprinus, feem to 

 indicate they belong to Greece. They are found in theifland 

 of Cyprus, but whether exclufively from the reft of the 

 iflands is what I cannot determine. 



This fifh has two fins upon its back ; the firfl has a fharp 

 fhort thorn before it, and is compofed of feven longer ones,, 

 fharp pointed, but much weaker in fhape, refembiing the 

 latine fail of a boat. The one behind it is compofed of 

 eleven fmall pliable bones, but not armed with any defence. 

 The belly has two fins, made of pliable, unarmed bones 

 likewife, and on its fide near the gills it has two others of 

 the fame kind. The tail is forked into two fharp thin nar- 

 row divifions, that below are confiderably fhorter than a- 

 bove. Below its throat is a parcel of long-bones hanging 

 down like a beard, which grow longer as they approach the 

 tail, the laft being the larger! of all. 



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