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ME EOCHE. 
T. he body is fmooth and flippety, and almofl of equal 
thicknefs ; the two dorfal and caudal fins are marked 
with fmall fpots, the latter fomewhat rounded, and barr- 
ed with Itripes of black. This difgufting fiih, which 
conftantly crawls at the bottom of our rivers, is by fome 
reckoned a delicate food, when made into a kind of 
fauce. They generate commonly in the month of April, 
among the long aquatic weeds about the brink of (he 
riyers f. 
f Willough. page 165, 
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