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One of its peculiarities is, to have the bones and the vertebral column
of a very mnarked green color, which in the midst of its white flesh-of
very fine flavor, moreover-produces so unusual a contrast, that rmany
persons refuse to eat it. Sailors, and the dwellers on the sea-shore,
however, do not share this prejudice, and appreciate its flesh at its true
value, which is precisely that of the mackerel. Every thing is peculiar
about this odd fish, and its head is by no means the least remarkable.
One could say that it resembles the bill of a woodcock on the head of
a mackerel; but this would give only a vague idea. In fact, the muandibles of this false beak are really two solid jawbones, each furnished
with two rows of teeth, sharp, and pointing backward-teeth, the iIIportanice of which the reader will comprehend when he knows that the
gar-fislh is a cousin of the pike, and forms a portion of the same famnily.
As if this luxury of these snapping teeth was not enough, gar-fish have,
besides, the pharyngeal arch-that is to say, the entrance to the stomach
-furnished with teeth, like a pavement. The lower jaw is always
nearly an inch longer than the upper; but, why this is so, no one knows,
since the contrary would seem to be a more suitable arrangement for so
rap)aci)us a fish.
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