SS2 SNIG EEL. 



conjectured to be the Anguille plathec of Cuvier. I have never 

 seen it but of small size; but the form of its head, as being 

 more elevated behind, and short and sloping forward, is so 

 different from the others, and the body generally more com- 

 pressed, that I feel much disposed to consider it distinct. But 

 of its history I know nothing further than that it has been 

 obtained from the border of the tide when much ebbed. The 

 arrangement of mucous glands in front of the eye in this last 

 supposed species is different ixom that of other Eels. 



