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broadeft, it growing larger till it comes thither, and then decreafing 
again by an Arch towards the Tail. Ic had no Teeth, a narrow 
Mouth, black Eyes with a large white Circle, ic had fix Fins, one 
beginning on the broadeft Place of the Back, having prickly Bones 
to defend it, and on each Side a large Row of Scales, ending at 
the Tail, two Inch long ones behind the Braachie, white as the for- 
mer, two in the broadeft Part of the Belly yellow, and one poft Anam, 
defended with a long prickly Bone. ‘The Tail was an Inch long and 
forked, it had anarch’d Line from Head to Tail on the upper Parts of 
its Sides, and was cover’d with pretty large white Scales, fomewhat 
dark towards the Back. 
_ on was nothing obfervable in the inwards, only the Peritoncam 
ack. 
Ic was taken at Old Harbour. 
They are accounted very good to eat. 
IV. Dentici aut Coracino congener pifcis ex cinereo fafco varius. Tab. 
259. Fig. 2. Rat. fy. p. 161. 
The Rock Fifb. 
It was ten Inches long from the Head to the Tail, and four Inches 
and a half broad from thé Belly to the Back near the Head, where 
it was broadeft, it had two Holes under the Eyes like Noftrils, 
large Eyes black with a white Irés or Circle round them, and a yellow 
one round that, the Mouth was prominent, the under Jaw longer 
than the upper, both fet with feveral Rowes of fmall fharp Teeth, 
the upper part of the Tongue and Palate of the Mouth of an Orange 
Colour, the Tongue Triangular. It had one large Pin an Inch broad, 
reaching from neat the Head along the whole Back, the firit 
half having prominent prickly fharp Bones. It had .behind the 
Branchie two Pinne of two Inches in length, and one Inch in breadth 
redifh, it had alfo two Pizwe Inch and a half long under the Abdomen; 
behind the Aas was another guarded with a long thick prickly Bone. 
The Tail was an oblong Square, the Skin on both fides had very {mall 
{carce difcernible Scales, being of two Colours white and brown, 
varioufly interfpers’d in great or fmall Spots or Macule. 
It had a great Stomach oblong or fack Fafhion’d, it was very thin 
and white, and fil’d with two Crabs almoft entire, the Stomach was 
cover’d witha whitifh colour’d Liver, and a great many Veffels or Strings 
of Fat like an Omentum, the Inteftina Cacas or Appendices of fome other 
Fifhes. The Guts had feveral Windings and were fmal], the Heart {mall, 
its Auricle white, and the Tongue and Palate of the Mouth foft. 
It was taken at Old Harbour. 
They feed on Sea Crabs, _ 
They are counted good Food. 
V. Piratiapia Marcgravij turdis congener pifcis. W illughb. p. 328 ? Tab. 
X. 7. Fig. 4° Péiratsapia Brafilienfibas Marcg. p. 157- ed. 1648 ? 
Pirati apua Pifons p. 50: ed. 1658? Raij. fym. ps 127. . 
Another Sort of Rock-Fifh. 
This is found in the Seas adjoining to Famaica. 
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