150 
ESOX. 
The snout protruded, broad, and somewhat flattened; prape wide, the 
palate, throat, and sides of the lower jaw thickly armed with prominent 
teeth. Body lengthened, dorsal and anal fins single, far behind and 
opposite each other. Abdominal fishes. 
PIKE. 
JACK. 
Luciut, 
Esox Indus, 
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JossiON; Table 29, f. 1. Willoughby; p. 236, 
Table p. 6. 
LiNNiEus. CirviEK. Bloch; PI. 32. 
Donovan; PL 109. Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 184. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 417. Yarrell; Br. Pishes, 
vol. i, p. 434. 
The Pike has been long popularly know as characterized 
by an eager and almost indiscriminate appetite, accompanied 
with great boldness in all that relates to the satisfying of its 
cravings; and numerous stories illustrative of this are recorded 
in books of Natural History. We will quote a few of these, 
from writers that are less accessible to readers in general, in 
order to shew this predominant disposition of what has been 
termed the tyrant of the lake and stream; and in which its 
voracity equals, if it does not exceed, even that of the generality 
of Sharks; although from its more limited powers and opportu- 
nities it does not usually display them on the higher animals 
or man. The naturalist Jonston quotes Rondeletius as saying, 
(what I do not find in my copy of that author, A.D. 1554:,) 
that a friend of his had stopped on the border of the Rhone 
that his mule might drink, when a Pike seized the animal by 
the lower lip, and held it so fast, that as the animal started 
