the dace. 
193 
spring, were abundance of minute whitish tubercles, an 
accident which Pliny seems to have observed befals the fish 
of the Lago Maggiore, and Lago di Como. The scales are 
very large: the sides fiat and thin. 
The dorsal fin lias eleven rays, the second of which is the 
longest; that fin, as well as all the rest, are of a dusky 
colour; the back of the same hue; the sides yellowish. 
The tail is very large, and of the form of a crescent. 
The Rud is found in the Charwell, near Oxford, in the 
Fens near Holderness. The body is extremely deep, like 
that of the bream, but much thicker. The head is small- 
the back vastly arched ; the scales very large. The back 
is of an olive colour, the sides and belly gold ; the ventral 
and anal fins, and the tail of a deep red. It appears to be 
the same fish with the shallow of the Cam. 
The Crucian is common in many of the fish-ponds about 
London, and other parts of the south of England ; but we 
believe is not a native fish. 
It is very deep and thick ; the back is much arched; the 
dorsal (in consists ot nineteen rays : the two first strong and 
serrated. The pectoral -fins have (each) thirteen rays” the 
ventral nine ; the anal seven or eight ; the lateral line pa- 
rallel with the belly ; the tail almost even at the end. 
The colour of the fish in general is a deep yellow; the 
meat is coarse, and little esteemed. 
‘-Sound as a Roach , is a proverb that appears to be but 
indifferently founded, that fish being not more distinguished 
for its vivacity than many others; yet it is used\y the 
french as well as the English, who compare people of 
strong health to the gordon, or roach. 
It is a common fish, found in many of our deep, still 
rivers, affecting, like the others of this genus, quiet waters. 
It is gregarious, keeping in large shoal's. We have never 
seen them very large. Old Walton speaks of some that 
Weighed two pounds. In a list of fish sold in the London 
markets, with the greatest weight of each, communicated to 
us by an intelligent fishmonger, there is mention of one 
Whose weight was five pounds. 
The roach is deep, but thin, and the back is much ele- 
cted, and sharply ridged ; the scales large, and fall off very 
e asdy. Side-line bends much in the middle towards the belly. 
dhe T)«ce, like the roach, is gregarious, haunts the same 
Places, is a great breeder, very lively, and during summer 
I s Yury fond of frolicking near the' surface of the water, 
his fish, and the roach, are coarse and insipid meat. 
you II. 2d 
