CKUCIAN. 
29 
It is easy to suppose that some of these fishes which had been 
0 tained from the continent of Europe, where they are not 
rare, may have been set free in the Thames without having 
een operated on in the manner described, and there they may 
ave continued the race; but that the operation from which we 
have an account of their introduction into England was not 
such a novelty as was supposed, is rendered probable from the 
uuon ^ ip Sidney, although the operation was performed 
upon another species: — 
™ strangers much admired, 
ms lire be new requiretl. 
Seven Wonders of England 
retIt?:?Hf;;t,“ 
siderable cHstances for the purpose 3 conveyed to Con- 
or slowly-flowing rivers- but it will P^'°P^gnted in ponds 
or efr™, . i. i, ru'i: “in 
never becomes equal to the Carp in size. It is said to h f 
slow growth. We copy the figure of this fish given by Rif 
and Ekstrom, with a large portion of their descHption 
bnt“-t resemblance to the Carp 
half of its lencth It mn u S^P^tcst depth is equal to one 
C.rp by .w„ce of b^b,' 
equal and without teeth, gape small- bod !v'i 
compressed; the outline ascends from tL 
erpccMly ,be head, to the ori,i„ of .he”d„“ial"t 7” 
third rav If ib f the 
rd ray of the dorsal and anal fins, which are longL than 
the preceding, thick and very finely notched; tail shorwhi" 
