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mon and fea gulls 5 a few black oyfter catchers, or fea-pies; 

 and a pretty plover of a ftone colour, with a black hood. 

 About the pond or lake behind the beach, a few wild ducks 

 were fecn ; and fome fhags ufed to perch upon the high 

 leaflefs trees near the fhore. 



Some pretty large blackifli fnakes were feen in the woods; 

 and we killed a large, hitherto unknown, lizard, fifteen 

 inches long and fix round, elegantly clouded with black and 

 yellow ; befides a fmall fort, of a brown gilded colour above, 

 and rufly belov/. 



The fea affords a much greater plenty, and at lead as 

 great a variety as the land. Of thefe the elephant fifli, or 

 pejegallo, mentioned in Frezier's Voyage *, are the mod nu- 

 merous ; and though inferior to many other fifh, were very 

 palatable food. Several large rays, nurfes, and fmall lea- 

 ther-jackets were caught; with fome fmall white bream, 

 which were firmer and better than thofe caught in the lake. 

 We likewife got a few foles and flounders; two forts of 

 gurnards, one of them a new /pedes -, fome fmall fpotted 

 mullet; and, very unexpectedly, the fmall fifli with a filver 

 band on its fide, called cthcrina hepfetus by Hafi"elquifl-f. 



But that next in number, and fuperior in goodnefs, to the 

 elephant fifli, was a fort none of us recollecTied to have feen 

 before. It partakes of the nature both of a round and of a 

 flat fifli, having the eyes placed very near each other ; the 

 fore-part of the body much flattened or depreffed, and the 

 refl: rounded. It is of a brownifh fandy colour, with rufly 

 fpots on the upper part, and whitifh below. From the 



* Tom. ii. p. 211. i2mo. Planche XVII. t Iter Palajilnum. 



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