NORTH AMERICA. 
The afternoon and evening moderately warm, and 
exceeding pieafant views from the river and its va- 
ried mores. I palled by Battle lagoon and the bluff, 
without much oppofition ; but the crocodiles were 
already affembling in the pafs. Before night I 
came to, at a charming orange grove bluff, on the 
Eafl fide of the little lake ; and after fixing my camp 
on a high open fituation, and collecting a plenty of 
dry wood for fuel, I had time to get fome fine trout 
for fupper, and joyfully return to my camp. 
What a mofi beautiful creature is this fifh before 
me! gliding to and fro, and figuring in the ftill 
clear waters, with his orient attendants and affo- 
ciates : the yellow bream * or fun fifn. It is about 
eight inches in length, nearly of the fhape of the 
trout, but rather larger in proportion over the 
ihoulders and bread : the mouth large, and the 
branchioftega opens wide ; the whole fifh is of a 
pale gold (or burnifhed brafs) colour, darker on the 
back and upper fides ; the fcales are of a propor- 
tionable fize, regularly placed, and every where 
variably powdered with red, rufTet, filver, blue, and 
green (peeks, fo laid on the fcales as to appear like 
real duft or opaque bodies, each apparent particle 
being fo projected by light and made, and the va- 
rious attitudes of the Jim, as to deceive the fight; 
for in reality nothing .can be of a more plain and 
polifhed furface than the fcales and whole body of 
the fifh. The fins are of an orange colour : and, 
like all the fpeclef .of ihe bream, the ultimate angle 
of the branchioftega terminates by a little fpatula, 
the extreme end of w*hic,h .represents a crefcent of 
the fineft ultramarine blue, encircled with filver and 
* Cyprinus coi'onariuSo 
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