The Natural History of Selborne 1
The Natural History of Selborne 1
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Finding, while I was on a visit, that I was within • Mr. Peter Mazel was the engraver of Pennant's plates.
78 NATURAL HISTOBT a reasonable distance of Ambresbuiy, I sent a senrant over to that town, and procured several living spe- cimens of loaches, which he brought, safe and brisk, in a glass decanter. They were taken in the gullies that were cut for watering the meadows. From these fishes (which measured fi'om two to four inches in length) I took the following description i — " The loach, in... its general aspect, has a pellucid appearance ; its back is mottled with irregular collections of small black dots, not reaching much below the linea late- rcdiSf as are the back and tail fins : a black line runs from each eye down to the nose ; its belly is of a silvery white; the upper jaw projects beyond the lower, and is surrounded with six feelers, three on each side; its pectoral fins are large, its ventral much smaller; the fin behind its anus small; its dorsal fin large, containing eight spines; its tail, where it joins to the tail-fin, remarkably broad, with- out any taperness, so as to be characteristic of this genus : the tail-fin is broad, and square at the end.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Finding, while I was on a visit, that I was within • Mr. Peter Mazel was the engraver of Pennant's plates.
78 NATURAL HISTOBT a reasonable distance of Ambresbuiy, I sent a senrant over to that town, and procured several living spe- cimens of loaches, which he brought, safe and brisk, in a glass decanter. They were taken in the gullies that were cut for watering the meadows. From these fishes (which measured fi'om two to four inches in length) I took the following description i — " The loach, in... its general aspect, has a pellucid appearance ; its back is mottled with irregular collections of small black dots, not reaching much below the linea late- rcdiSf as are the back and tail fins : a black line runs from each eye down to the nose ; its belly is of a silvery white; the upper jaw projects beyond the lower, and is surrounded with six feelers, three on each side; its pectoral fins are large, its ventral much smaller; the fin behind its anus small; its dorsal fin large, containing eight spines; its tail, where it joins to the tail-fin, remarkably broad, with- out any taperness, so as to be characteristic of this genus : the tail-fin is broad, and square at the end.
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