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all, of the salubrity of the surrounding atmo- chap. 
sphere ^ He says the water is so cold, that its v. 
temperature is not affected by its being exposed 
to the sun during the hottest season of the year. 
A most curious circumstance concerning this 
lake is mentioned by Hasselquist : "I thought it 
remarkable," observes this celebrated natu- 
ralist', '* that the same kind of fish should be ^^^^ 
here met with as in the Nile ; Charmuth, Silurus, 
Boenni, Mulsil, and Sparus Galilc^us." This 
explains the observations of certain travellers, 
who speak of the lake as possessing fishes 
peculiar to itself ; not being, perhaps, acquainted 
with the produce of the Nile. Josephus consi- 
ders the Lake Gennesareth as having fishes of a 
peculiar nature®; and yet it is very worthy of 
notice, that, in speaking of the fountain of Caper- 
naum, his remarks tend to confirm the observa- 
tion made by Hasselquist. " Some consider it," 
says he', "as a vein of the N'ile, because it 
brings forth fishes resembling the Coracinus of 
the ''Alexandrian lake." 
(6) Joseph, lib. iii. de Bell. Jud. c. IS. 
(7) Htrsselquist's Voy. and Trav. in the Levant, p. 157. Lond. 1766. 
(8) Lib. iii. cap. 18. de Bell. Jud. 
(9) Taurtif ipxi/ia roZ Utikou rivis tSa|a», iTTii ysvtix reo xara rtit 'AXelaf- 
ipii>\i Xifi.vt!v Ko^nKiveu vrxoocrX-Afftot. Joseph, lib. iii. de Bell. Jud. tom.Xl. 
p.'258.ed. S. Haverc. Amst. &c. 1726. Tlie same kind of fish is men - 
tionedin Athenaeus, (p. 227. C. Hnv.J See also " Gesner. de Aquatilibus." 
