lake beeam. 
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water of which became frozen so entirely that not one of the 
con be seen; but when the frost disappeared the Bream 
again appeared without having suffered harm. 
Length of the example from the snout to the fork of the 
ail sixteen inches; greatest depth, which is about the beginning 
ot the dorsal fin, seven inches and a fourth. Head small; the 
ou me risii^ rapidly from the nape, and beginning co slope 
ownward from the dorsal fin towards the tail; the body, 
exclusive of the tail, approaching to an oval Snout round, 
undei jaw slightly the shortest; no teeth, lips fleshy, slightly 
dem-p^^ lateral, large; nostrils open, in a 
epiession, high on the front, with a band or depression above 
r ^ ^ compressed, 
body. Dor^l fin elevated, behind the middle of the bodv 
toilet TT from the vL S; 
ventrals^'before the""^"'^ ‘ ^ootoral fin rounded, 
ven tadt kef cT E to th 
TaL on the back, 
Fm rays-in the dorsal eleven, caudal seventeen, anal twenty- 
nine, pectoral sixteen, ventral nine. ^ 
