4 best's art or angling. 



per to dWideJishes into such as breathe with hingSj 

 and such as breathe with gills; and then to sub- 

 divide those that breathe with gilis, not into 

 cartillganous and spinous, but into viviparous 

 and oviparous. 



The viviparous kind, that breathe with gills, 

 he subdivides into long, such as the galei and 

 canes, or sharks and dogj^s/r. and broad; such 

 as the pastinaca, raja, &c. &c. the subdivisions 

 of each whereof, he gives in his chapter of car- 

 tihganous/fsAe.s in general. 



The oviparous kind that breathe with gills, are 

 the most numerous; and these he subdivides 

 into such as are what w^e usually call flat fish ; 

 and such as swim with their backs upright, or at 

 right angles to the horizon. 



The plain or flat fish kind called usuall}^ plani 

 spinosi, are either quadrati, as the rombi and 

 passeres, or those of the turbot and flounder 

 kind ; or longuisadi, as the sola, or sole kind. 



Such as sw im with their backs erect, are either 

 long and smooth, and without scales, as the eel 

 kind, or shorter and less smooth ; and these have 

 either but one pair of fins at their gills, which 

 are called orbes and congeneres, or else another 

 pair of iins also on their bellies ; which latter 

 kind he subdivides into two kinds: 1. Such as 

 have no pricMy fi.ns on their backs, but soft and 

 flexible ones. 2. Such as have prickly fins on 

 their backs. 



Those^sAes which have only soft and flexible 

 iins on their backs, may be divided into such as 

 have three, two, or but one single^?? there. 



No fish but the aselli have three fins on their 

 backs. 



Fishes with two fins on their b'kcks, are either 



