THE COB?. 
Hoi. 
Genus XXIX. The Go 7 >j>. 
T'here are eight fpecies belonging to tills family, that 
are enumerated by the Swedijh naturalift. Their common 
characters are, the body ltraight, and gently compreffed; 
the ikin rough, with a thick coat of fmall imbricated and 
deciduous feales. The jaws of equal length, armed with 
fmall, (harp and immoveable teeth. The dorl'al fins are two ; 
the firft fmall, confiding only of a few rays, the fecond 
broad and high ; the pectoral fins are large, and rounded 
at the ends ; while the ventral are united, and have the 
appearance of a funnel. 
There are only two fpecies of the goby known to 
frequent our coafts, the black and the fpotted. The fird 
grows to the fize of fix inches ; the fecond only three* 
and is frequently canght in the flu-imp nets upon our fan- 
ny fhores *. Two or three other fpecies frequent th« 
Mediterranean ; but as they are of no value, their habit* 
and manners are but little known. 
* BritHh Zoology, 
