ſubſtance projecting from its navel, like the mouth of a purſe, which has the faculty of ſuction, and by which the fiſh faſtens itſelf ſo ſtrongly to the ſtones in the rivers, that it is difficult to take them with the hook and line, to which they are often deſtructive: for this reaſon they are moſtly caught with the hands groping among the ſtones; in which manner theſe fiſh are taken in great plenty by thoſe who are dextrous at that way of fiſhing.
The cray-fiſh are of two kinds, the one approaching the ſize of the common lobſter, the other that of the prawn. The firſt is much admired, but the latter having a rank, muddy taſte, is not in much eſteem.
But the chief dainty among the freſh-water fiſh 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." Theſe conſiſt of va-
