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by over-laying and keeping them down by its vaft 

 weight till they are drowned. Phile gives much 

 the fame relation *. We are inclined to give them 

 credit, fince a modern writer -f, of undoubted au- 

 thority, gives the very fame account of a fifh found 

 in the South Seas, the terror of thofe employed in 

 the pearl fifhery. It is a fpecies of ray, called 

 there Manta, or the §)uilt 9 from its furrounding 

 and wrapping up the unhappy divers till they are 

 fuffocated ; therefore the negroes never go down, 

 without a fharp knife to defend themfelves againft 

 the afiaults of this terrible enemy. 



Raia aiteria afpera. Rondel. 352." 32. Rough* 



Gefnerpifc. 794. WiL Ifib. 78. 

 Raiifyn. pifc. 28. 



I TOOK this fpecies in Loch Broom in the fhire 

 of 

 The length from the nofe to the tip of the tail 

 was two feet nine. The tail was almoft of the fame 

 length with the body. 



Nofe very fhort. Before each eye a large hook- 

 ed fpine, and behind each another, befet with lefTer. 

 The upper part of the body of a cinereous brown 



* De propriet. Anim. 85. 



f Ulloa's *voy. I. 132. S-vo. edit. 



G 3 mixed 



