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The dolphin, or Coryphana hippurus, had 

 the following characters : the membrana bran* 

 chiojlega has feven rays : the body is greenifh 

 dotted with blue, two feet long, narrow, 

 (harp-pointed : the head is obtufe, fhort : the 

 lower-jaw is the longed : the eyes are globofe : 

 the irides are gold-coloured : the teeth, which 

 are fhort and numerous, {land in the jaws and 

 gums : the back and belly are fharp : the tail 

 is furcated : the fingle dorfal-fin begins on the 

 middle of the head, and goes to the tail ; to- 

 wards the head it is the broadeft ; it has fixty 

 rays: the pecloral-fins have nineteen, the ven- 

 tral fins fix, and the anal-fin, which extends 

 from the anus, or from the middle of the fifii 

 to the tail, has twenty-fix rays : the tail is 

 bifid, and each of its parts has twenty rays. 

 The fifh is exceedingly quick in its motions, 

 and in the water feems fhaded with black and 

 green : the ovary is oblong, double, and 

 large : the lateral-line is bent, runs directly by 

 the back, and is fcarce diftinguifhable between 

 the head and the anus. This fifh is very fel- 

 dom met with, except in fuch places where 

 the winds are changeable, that is, only within 

 the Tropics* 



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