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the lisa, which I have already noticed ; tlie trout ; 

 the cauqui (cyprinus caucus) ; the malclie (cyprinus 

 malchus) ; the yuli (cyprinus julus) ; the enmarca, 

 or peladilla (stromateus cumarca) ; and the bagre, 

 or luvur (silurus Chilensis). The bagre has a 

 smooth skin without scales, and is brown upon the 

 sides, and whitish under the belly. In its form it 

 resembles a tadpole, the head being of a size dispro- 

 portionate to the length of the body, which does not 

 exceed eleven inches at the most. It has a blunt 

 mouth, furnished, like that of the barbel, with barbs. 

 It has a sharp spine on the back fin, like the tropical 

 bagre, but its-puncture is not venomous, as that is 

 said to be. The flesh is yellow, and the most deli- 

 cious of any esculent fish that is known. There is 

 said to be another species or variety of this fish, in- 

 habiting the sea, that is black, and which I pre- 

 sume is the same that Commodore Anson's sailors 

 called, from its colour, the chimney-sweep. 



Eels are found only in the Araucanian provinces, 

 where they are exceedingly plenty, and are taken by 

 the Indians in a kind of basket, placed against the 

 current. The river Talten, which waters those 

 provinces, produces a small fish called paye, which, 

 as I have been assured by those who have seen them, 

 is so diaphanous, that if several are placed upon each 

 other, any object beneath them may be distinctly 

 Seen. If this property is not greatly exaggerated, 

 this fish might serve to discover the secret process 

 of digestion, and the motion of the fluids. 



Among the great varieties of fish with which the 

 waters of Chili abound, the three following are more 



