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they are often found thrown up into the marfhes, and 
on the fhoals, where they remain at the recefs of the 
water and abating of the wind, and ierve as food to 
numbers of crows. The inhabitants of Hudfon’s Bay 
think this filh very fweet, and good to eat, contrary 
to the opinion of many Europeans. 
The fourth and laft fifh brought from Hudfon’s 
Bay is there called a Sucker , becaufe it lives by fuc» 
tion, according to Mr. Graham’s account, who like- 
wife fays, that there are two varieties of this fifh, 
both of a whitifh colour, but one diflinguifhed by 
a mixture of beautiful red. In the fmalled; of 
two fpecimens brought over, a broad ftripe of red 
could be obferved all along the line a lateralis. They 
are very numerous in the creeks and rivers, and 
troublefome in overburdening the nets. They are 
not deemed a palatable food, being very foft, and 
full of fmall bones. They weigh from one half to 
2| pounds. 
The above is literally what Mr. Graham fays of 
this fifh, and all that is known of its natural hiftory. 
Examining it carefully, I found it was a new fpecies 
of the genus of Cyprinus , or Carp. 
The head is broader than the body, gradually de- 
creafing towards the nofe, full of elevations and tu- 
bercles, nearly quadrangular, and not fcaly. The 
mouth is quite under the head, as in the Loricarice , 
when fhut, femiiunarj when open, round; not far 
from the extremity of the fnout, and included in 
fmall round lips. To the under»lip is fixed a bilobated, 
beard-like, papiilofe caruncula; it has no teeth. The 
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