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 ubtance projecting from its navel, like the mouth of a pure, which has the faculty of uction, and by which the fih fatens itelf o trongly to the tones in the rivers, that it is difficult to take them with the hook and line, to which they are often detructive: for this reaon they are motly caught with the hands groping among the tones; in which manner thee fih are taken in great plenty by thoe who are dextrous at that way of fihing.

The cray-fih are of two kinds, the one approaching the ize of the common lobter, the other that of the prawn. The firt is much admired, but the latter having a rank, muddy tate, is not in much eteem.

But the chief dainty among the freh-water fih in Dominica is the young frey, with which the rivers there are filled twice or thrice every year, and which are called by the French "Tréz tréz." Thee conit of