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ZERTA

Volume 20 · 84 words · 1810 Edition

the Zerte, a fish caught in the rivers of Italy and fome other places, of the figure of the chub, and called by authors capitio anadromus, and the blike. It feldom grows to more than two pounds weight, and at times lives in rivers, at times in the fea; and is efteemed a very well tafted fhill, efpecially a little before the feafon of its spawning. The zerte is that species of cyprinus defcribed by Gellner and others under the name of capitio anadromus.