bleak. 
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Its flesh is quicW^^^' the Bleat dies quickly when caught, and 
As food S 
been attached^T^^^ thought of, but a value 
it has been the s W ^ remarkable invention of which 
the particulars nf formation of fictitious pearls ; 
"fish Tatae^^l'‘f 1 «”<! “‘ated by D,. Badha^/in hil 
reach, n i- * 1 , ®^Sth than by any other writer within 
the scales that b!. u . the inner surface 
“manufacture was fir!f employed for this purpose; and the 
pearls were held in V'enice; where the true 
^t the time when tb 1 ^ “ghest value, as they were in Eome 
greatness. The ^t the height of its 
glass globules wbL^ Pigment was dropped into thin hollow 
pearly varnish- and b the surface by means of a 
fer people of liim't i ^ purchase of these it became easv 
richer classes Tb^^L ^ the higher 
government and tb tmowever was not long tolei-ated by the 
forbidden n f P^’^'^tice of thus imitating the true pearls 
art was re-inv! ^here 
conveyed into Pno-l i T introduced; and from whence it was 
it appears to be ® countries; but where at present 
that the crueltv “^giooted. In London we are told 
®^ales, and then P^'-'^^tised of depriving these fish of their 
^ot aware that fi b ^re 
covering, ... .®° treated can ever regain their natural 
®®oond time the elr “tended to catch and rob them a 
I'his fish =.rf unsuccessful, 
at the ventral ^tf inches, with a depth 
tbe lower jaw a Ibtl i ’ , somewhat pointed, and 
in proportion to the b ,tban the upper; the head small 
'iown to about the f i^^teral hne gradually slopes 
backward low down f yentml fins, and from thence 
^“rsal fin i^ straight; scales easily removed. The 
^®“t; behind tLs 1 ^ the 
to the tail. tbe body becomes narrow 
“otes of'the’S^ bears some resemblance to the Dace, a few 
laid side tr’^r oi^amples of each sort of equal 
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