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splendid fish or feet

The pirarucu (Sudis gig as) is a splendid fish or feet, long, with large scales of more than an inch in diameter, and beautifully marked and spotted with red.The lakes in Tory Burch Sale Brazil contain great quantities of them, and they are salted and dried for the Para market It is a very fine flavoured fish, the belly in particular being so fat and rich that it cannot be cured, and is therefore generally eaten fresh. This fish (remarks Mr. Wallace) with farinha and some coffee made us an excellent supper; and the alligators tails which I now tasted for the first time, was by no means to be despised. A smaller kind is that eaten, the flesh being more delicate than in the larger species.The sheeps head, or, in more scientific language, the Sargus ovu, is a favourite fish in North America, where it visits the coasts in large shoals during the summer and autumn. The principal fishery is off the coasts of New York, and thousands are occasionally taken at a single cast of the large nets used at some places. The fish, immediately on their capture, are packed in ice, and sent to the New York market, where they have been known to sell as high as