AFRICA. 1751. 117 



May the 27th, 37°i9'S.L. 



Six dolphins h followed our (hip, and gene- 

 rally were on the furface of the water. I 

 never faw a finer fifh than this for the variety 

 of its colours. The dolphin is the fame in a 

 large fize, as the gold-fifh is in a fmall. 



May the 29th, 37 33' S. L. 



This morning, about two o'clock, I faw an 

 eclipfe of the moon, which began on the 

 fouth-eait fide, and continued till three quar- 

 ters paft three o'clock, when only the north- 

 weft border was eclipfed. The moon after- 



* The reader muft here take care not to confound this 

 dolphin (which is the Corypbana bippuris, Linn, and the 

 Dorado of the Poriugue/e) with the dolphin of the ancients, 

 {Delphinus delpbis, Linn.) which is a cetaceous fifh. If by 

 gold-fifi, Mr. OJheck means, as we do, to exprefs the Cypri- 

 nus auratus, Linn, one cannot but wonder that fo good a 

 naturalift fhould ufe fo little precifion in his account as to 

 fay, ".The dolphin is the fame in a large fize, as &c." 

 merely from the refemblance of colour ; for the Dorado and 

 " gold-fifh are fo little alike as to be not only of different 

 genera, but alfo of different or dine s : for the former is a 

 thoracic fifh, the latter an abdominal. 



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