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The Natural Hiflory of JAMAICA. 
@na er. Fr 
Of Long Cartilagineous, amd Plain Flat Fifh. 
f. Cipaquitly Fernandes, p. 84. L? Efpadon de Rochef. 191. Priftis 
Rondel. p. 487. Pefce Imperatori. Col, f. 32. Serra marina, Bellon, 
p- 65. Priftis five ferra Pifcis Clufiy exet. lib. 6. cap. gq. Ratj, ps 61. Lab. 
B.g. Fig. 5. Sym. p. 23. 
DS ia The Saw-Fifh. 
Thefe are found in the Seas about ‘famaica and ate the Sword Fifhes 
ofan Avonymas Portugal of Brafile, Parchas, lib. 7. cap.1. pe 313. who 
kill Whales with their Snouts. The Indians beat and fright their 
difobedient Children with them; in Brafile they catch Fifhes whete- 
on they feed. and 
A ftrange Fifh named Urelif which had fought with a Crocodile, and 
being hurt came near the Shore, where one waded in and drew him on 
Land by the Tail; the Body was eaten, being like aSharke. Fenton ap. 
Hiskl. p. 759. p.3- at Sierra Leons, it had twenty three Spikes or Pricks 
of a fide. 
Poiffon apelle Sie de Dutertre. p. 208. 
Pexe lamado Vibuela de Oasedd, lib. t3. tap. 4. it was fo big asto loada 
Cart drawn by a°pair of Oxen from the Water-fide to a Town in 
Darien. It is eat in Neceffity: The large Fifh here are generally noc 
good to eat, except Manari. ~The teaft ofthis Kind is the beft Food. 
Pefce viola de Oviedo ap. Ramuus. Fol. 157, 
IL Canis Carcharias, few lansia Rondelet. Gefn. Aldtovand, Raij, Sy- 
nopf. p. 18. 
The Shark. 
I have nothing to add to what I have faid p. 22, 23, G 24. of the 
Firft Volume of this Hiftory. 
III. Paffinacay marina, levis, ex atro cerulea,albis maculis notata. Autre forte 
deRaye de Dutertre, p. 217. Rayes having in their Mouth two Bones, breaking; 
Wilks with them of an Azonymus Portugal of Brafile,° Purchas, lib. 7. CAP. 1. 
p. 1313. Nari-Nari Brafilienfibus. Marcgr. Ed. 1648. p.75. Pif. lib. 3. ps 
58. Ed. 1658. & lib. 5. p. 239. Nari-Nari Brafilienfibus Marcgr. Aquile 
[pecies. Belgis Pajlftert vet Seicle. Raij, p. 66. Tab. C 1. Fig. 5. Syn. Pp 24. 
Whip-Ray, 
This was about two Foot over from Corner to Corner, and all blue, 
even the Flefh itfelf with white Spots on it, the under fide or Belly was 
white, as in others of this Kind, the Tail was fix Foot long, black, 
{mall and fmooth, of which are made Whips, whence the Name Whip- 
Ray, beyond the Pinna at the End of the Body or in the Beginning of 
the Tail lie one,two, or three, Inch and half long flat ftreight Bones or Radij, 
they are white, ferrated with Teeth on both Sides like a Saw, made {fo 
as an Arrow that’s bearded, to enter the Flefh eafily but not to come 
out without tearing it, they lie one on another on the upper Part of 
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