NORTH AMERICA. 
15* 
The afternoon and evening moderately warnh> and 
exceeding pleafant views from the river and its va- 
ried fhores. I paffed by Battle lagoon and the 
bluff, without much oppofition ; but the crocodiles 
tvere already afiettibling in the pafs. Before night I 
came to, at a charming orange grove bluff, on the 
Ead fide of the little lalte ; 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 flipper and joyfully return to my camp. 
What a mod beautiful creature is this fifli before 
me ! gliding to and fro, and figuring in the ft ill 
clear waters, with his orient attendants and affo- 
ciates: the yellow bream * or fun fifh. It is about 
eight inches in length, nearly of the fhape of the 
trout, but rather larger in proportion over the 
fhoulders and bread ; the mouth large, and the 
branchiodega opens wide ; the whole bfh 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, ruder, filver, blue, and 
green fpecks, fo laid on the fcales as to appear like 
real dud or opaque bodies, each apparent particle 
being fo projected by light and fhade, and the va- 
rious attitudes of the fids, 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 fifli. The fins are of an orange colour; and, 
like all the fpecies of the bream, the ultimate angle 
of the branchiodega terminates by a little fgatuia, 
the extreme end of which reprefents a credent of 
the fined ultramarine blue, encircled with filver and 
* Cyprinus coronarius. 
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