Class IV. DOLPHIN. 



5 5 



Cetaceous Fifli, with teeth in both jaws. 



nr. 



DOLPHIN, 



AfiXpk 4™ft- Hi/, an. lib. 



VI. c. 12. AsAp/v. JElian 



lib. I. c. 18. 

 Delphinus Plinii, lib. IX. 



£. 8. Le Daulphin, ou oye 



de mer, Belon Poijf. 7. 

 Delphinus. Rondel. 459. Gef- 



iter pifc. 319. Caii opufc. 



113- 



Delphinus Antiquorum. Wil. 



Iclh. 28. Rail fyn. pifc. 

 12. 

 Delphinus corpore Longo fub- 



teretf, roftro longo acuto. 



Arted. fyn. 105. 

 Le Dauphin. Brijbn Cet. 233. 

 Delphinus Delphis. Lin. Jyft. 



108. 

 Dolphin. Borlafe Cornwall, 



264. /«£. 27. Cranio GreenL 



I. 115. - 



24. Dol- 

 phin. 



TTISTORIANS and philofophers feem to 

 JL A have contended who fhould invent moft fa- 

 bles concerning this fifh. It was coniecrated to 

 the Gods, was celebrated in the earlier! time for 

 its foifdnefs of the human race, was honored with 

 the title of the Sacred Fijb*, and diftinguilhed by 

 thofe of Boy -loving, and Pbilantbropift. It gave rife 

 to a long train of inventions, proofs of the cre- 

 dulity and ignorance of the times. 



Ariftotle fleers the cleared of all the antients 

 from thefe fables, and gives in general fo faithful a 

 natural hiftory of this animal, as^ evinces the fupe- 

 rior judgment of that great philolbpher, in compa- 

 rifon to thofe who fucceeded him. But the elder 



Vol. III. 



* Atbenceus, 281 



F 



Pliny, 



