The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
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on the Belly. Towards the Tongue and Gills were a great many of 
thofe Craffacea figur’d by Pifo on the Fifth Acarapiamba, and very like 
a Shrimp only broader, and of a white Colour. ae | 
The Stomach was oblong or Sack-fafhion’d, and the Guts had but one 
Circumvolution, the Liver was cover’d with a great Subftance or Mafs 
of Flefh, like the Thymus, having white Veins or Nerves fike the 
Cerebellum when divided running through it. 
They are taken on allthe Shores of this Ifland. 
Thefe Fifh feed on long Worms. 
Il. Umbla minor marina maxillis longioribus. Tab. 247. Fig. 3. Raij. fys: 
p58. La Betane de Rochef.197.de Du Tertre. 204. Rat}. [ym p. 155- 
A Barracuda. 
This Fifh was about fifteen Inches long, and three Inches broad 
in the middle where broadeft. The lower Jaw was about a quarter 
of an Inch longer than the upper, from the Eyes to the End of the 
Jaws was about two Inches. The Jaws were near as long; the un- 
der Jaw had two Rowes of fmall Teeth, and one long one at 
the End in the Middle, the upper had one Row of fmall Teeth on 
the outfide and another within of long ones, the Tongue was oblong 
and cartilaginous. It began narrow, widen’d by Degrees till paft 
the Gills (which were red) then continu’d ‘of the’ fame breadth and 
bignefs to the Azus, from whence it decreas’d in breadth to the 
Tail. It was of a dark brown Colour above, and white underneath. 
A Line went from the Tail to the Head through its middle, it 
had here and there fome black Spots, and was cover’d over with 
{mall thin Scales. This Fifh had feven Fins, two on the Back about an 
Inch in Length and Breadth, two by the Branchie, another pair lower 
on the Belly, and one fingle one beyond the Azas, all of them foft. 
The Tail was large and forked. : | 
The Stomach was two or three Inches long, Sack Fafhion’d, hanging 
down, the Inteftina Caca’s or Appendices were very many, the Liver very 
white colour’d, the Heart as that of other Fifhes; and fo was the 
Swimm or Sound. 1k ee 
According to its feeding on venemous or hot venemous Food, ’tis 
wholefome or poyfonous to thofe who eat it; ‘tis alfo noxious in 
fome Seafons of the Year, and in fome Places, and innocent in others, 
I fuppofe according to its Nourifhment, by which now and then, it 
acquires fo much Poifon as to kill immediately. | 
It was taken at Old Harbour, and notwithftanding its fuppos’d 
poifonous Qualities fold in the Markets. 
Rochefort attributes a venemous .Quality to its Teeth, and Dz 
Tertre fays, that if the Teeth be green, and the Liver bitter; ’tis 
poifonous, and not to be tafted, beleiving it to feed then on Man- 
cenilles, dropping into the Sea: He tells us, he was very ill with eating 
Soldats or Hermit-Crabs on the like Occafion: 
III: Trutte congener, pifcis levis fluviatilis colote varias catapbractt 
facie. Tab. 249. Fig. 1. Raij. fyn. p. 158. An Amore pixuma Brafilrenfi- 
bus. Marcg. p. 166. ed. 1648 ? An Amore pixuma Pifon, p. 72. ed 1658? 
An Amore pisuma Brajilienfibas vulgo corrupte Amorea Marig. Willughb- 
P- 203. , | Gis ‘ 
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