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OBLONG DIODON. Class IV, 



dred pounds in weight : and Doctor Borlafe men- 

 tions another taken at Plymouth in 1734, that 

 weighed five hundred. 

 Dlscrip. j n f orni it refembles a bream, or fome deep fifh 

 cut off in the middle. The mouth is very fmall, 

 and contains in each jaw two broad teeth, with 

 fharp edges. 



The eyes are little •, before each is a fmall fe- 

 milunar aperture ; the pectoral Ens very fmall, and 

 placed behind them. The dorfal fin and the anal 

 fin are high, and placed at the extremity of the 

 body : the tail fin is narrow, and fills all the ab- 

 rupt fpace between thofe two fins. 



The color of the back is dufky, and dappled ; 

 the belly filvery : between the eyes and the pectoral 

 fins are certain ftreaks pointing downwards. The 

 Hs:in is free from fcales. 



When boiled, it has been obferved to turn into 

 a glutinous jelly, refembling boiled ftarch when 

 cold, and ferved the purpofes of glue, on being 

 tried on paper and leather. The meat of this fifli 

 is uncommonly rank : it feeds on (hell-fim. 



There feems to be no fatisfactory reafon for 

 the old Englijh name. Care muft be taken not to 

 confound it with the fun-fifh of the MJb % which 

 differs in all refpects from this* 



Orthragorifcus 



