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whhed : and having feen the trees with many 

 branches, from which a number of roots hung 

 down perpendicularly, near the watering- 

 place, I was forced to go on board again with 

 the boat. Here I found two fcarCe Mies, 

 which a friend of mine had got for me, that 

 I might put them into fpirits. They were : 



Chattodon faxatilis? a yelloWifh flounder- 

 like fifh, with broad black tranfverfal fafcia : 

 the fingle dorfal-jin is loW, and reaches to the 

 tail : its thirteen foremojl rays are prickly, the 

 remaining twenty-fix are longer, have a black 

 ftripe below, and likewife black tops : the 

 pecloralfins have fixteen rays: the ventral- 

 fins have fix rays : the three firlt rays of the 

 anal-Jin are prickly, but the other twenty have 

 black fpots, which taken together make a 

 narrow (tripe : the tail is entire, and has twen- 

 ty rays : the body is broad and compreffedj 

 with quadrangular fcales ; the opercula bran* 

 chlojl. are fcaly. 



Sparus Spinas was like a fort of dried fifli 

 which we bought at Canton for our voyage. 

 The dorfal-jin reaches from the head to the 

 tail, and has twenty-four rays, of which the 

 thirteen foremoU are prickly and fhorter : the 

 pettoralfins have fifteen rays : the ventral-fins 

 E 3 have 



