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proportion to thofe of the fame kinds found in other 
rivers, probably owing to the afliduity of the fifher- 
men. It is called by the natives, Zakzuk . 
Fig. 3. reprefents a fifli, which in its general form 
fomewhat refembles the above. It is in length 
three inches. The head is rather flatter ; the 
mouth has a more inferior fituation, and is in 
proportion larger than that of the former fifli ; 
the eyes much fmaller. The cirri , fituated as 
in the other, are eight in number, but much 
fhorter thofe that rife from the upper jaw 
(being the longeft) meafuring only one inch ; 
they are alfo flatter at their origin. 
They both agree in the number of their fins; 
neither has the fa w- like bone in the fin of the back, 
but only in thofe near the gills. The flefliy fin of 
the back is much fmaller than in the Zakzuk , and 
rifes at a much greater distance from the back fin. 
The colour is a pale filver marbled with grey ; par- 
ticularly the lower part of the fins and tail. The 
two larger cirri likewife marbled, the others white. 
Thefe two fillies (Fig. 2, 3.) have no fcales, and 
the palate, and other ftrudture of the infide of the 
mouth is like that of the Silurus. 
This laft defcribed fifli is alfo from the river Coic. 
The fifli Fig. 4. has upon a flight view fo much 
the appearance of an eel, and, except its not being 
fo fat, eats fo like that fifli, that tho’ it is much 
oftener brought to the tables of the Europeans at 
Aleppo than any other fifli found in the river Coic, 
it has never been fufpe&ed of being any- ways diffe- 
rent from the common eel ; and yet, upon exami- 
nation, it will be found of quite another genus. 
The 
