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over it : At the fpawning feafon, all tliis artifice feems 
to forfake the animal, and it becomes then fo Ample* 
that it fuficrs itfelf to be tickled, handled* and caught, 
by any perfon that will attempt it *. 
This fifh, when young, is of a dufky colour* growing 
yellow as it increafes in years : The body is of a thick 
fhape ; the fcales remarkably large ; and when the fifh 
is in feafon, of a fine gilded hue. The mouth is fur- 
rounded by fat, flefhy lips, of a yellow colour ; at the 
angle of the mouth there is a Angle beard, of a yellow 
colour, and above it another, fhorter, black* and lefs 
obfervable. The carp has no teeth ; their office is fup - 
plied by two fmooth triangular bones, above and below, 
which are placed at the entrance of the throat, and by 
afting againfi: each other, comminute the food before it 
pafies downward. The dorfal fin extends far back, al* 
moft reaching the tail, which is bifurcated. Oppofite to 
it is the anal fin, the third ray of which, as well as that 
bf the dorfal, is flrong, and armed with fharp teeth, that 
point downwards, 
The Barb elf. 
X" his fpecies is longer and more tapering in its fhape 
than the perch ; being from a foot to eighteen inches in 
length : In the Nile, it fometimes weighs twenty pounds, 
O 0 2 The 
* Britifc Zoology, gen. 40. 
t Barbus, Rondel. Cvprinus Barbus, Bin, Syft, 
