The Natural Hiflory of JAMAICA, 
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the Scales are large, rhomboidall, blackifh oa the Back, and white 
underneath. 
The Liver was large, dark dirty colour’d, having on its upper Pare 
a {phericall Gall Bladder very large and turgid, the Stomach oblong, 
white and thick, containing the Relicts of feveral Worms. aie 
Guts had few Turrings, and were fil?d with Gravel. | 
They are fometimes very large,.are in all frefh Water Rivers and 
Ponds, efpecially up in the Country, whence they, are brought down in 
exrracrdinary Plenty in great Rains with the Violence of the Streams, 
and when the Rivulets run no more, they are Iefe in Holes ef Water, 
and taken with Dogwood Bark, as is before telated. i 
They ate very good and delicious Food, being extreamly fat and 
favory, which may come from the Rivers not being here foul’d with 
excrementitious Matters fo much as thofe of Ezrope. 
The Gall is good for the Ears, and the Stones found in them 
diank with Water are good for the Stone. Pliz. 
fo) 
tieuis. Tab. 251. Hig. 3. Raij. fy. p. 159. 
Ne tec re Frefh-Water Snapper: me 
Ill. Mugili affinis flaviatilis pifcitulas, duabus pinnis dorfalibas con- 
This was about three Inches and a half long, about half ¢¢ broad 
in the middle where broadeft, it» had 4 prominent Mouth, fharp, 
without Teeth, .a greas brown Pupill in its Byeina large white Iris, it 
crew larger from the Mouth to nedrthe middle, and thence decreas’d 
tothe Tail, it had two large Fins, one prickly and another foft, con- 
tinu’d one to’ the other’ from the middle of the Back to the end of the 
Tail, two Fins long and fmall poff Branchtas, two under the Abdomen, 
one poff Anum, and a torked ‘Tail. There was actooked Line run 
paralell to the Back, ic was all over-colour’d with whitifh fhining 
Scales which towards the Back; were fomewhac darker colour’d thea 
underneath. ia | 
The Heart was very fmall, red; and inclos’d between two long: 
lobes of fat white Matter, and the Guts were very fmall. — cu 
It is to be found withthe Muadetts in all frefh Water Lakes and 
Rivers of the Ifland. 7 | ee, ; 
IV. Abacatuaja Brafilienfibus. Marcg. ed 1648. p. 161. Raij. p. 259. Tab. 
$.18. Fig. 2:-fym p.9g. Abacatuaja. Prion, p. 55. ed. 1658. An Awatkattoe 
five Fahwe, Laet, defcr. Am. lib, 15. cap. 12? Lunes de Da Tertre, pi 212: 
The Ola:Wife: 
This elegant, Fifh agrees in every thing with Péfo’s Defcription.’ ; 
Its Stomach was full of remainders of Fifh therein digefted, and was 
‘Sack Fafhion’d: | 3 
It was taken with the Gurnets before defcribed at O/d Harbowr, and 
brought to Market with them. 
It eafily appears not to be the Faber of Gefners 7 
There jis no Prickles in this Fifh’s Fins only long Strings, therefore 
‘Adoubt if this be a proper Place. . | 
Dadd Vi Fabes 
