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habits of beasts and fishes are eompared in each, and introduced for 

 the sake of mutual ilhistration. Thus, in the first Halieutic, a ship 

 arrested in the middle of her course, by the adhesion of the Remora, 

 or sucking fish, is assimilated to a wild beast suddenly struck by 

 the shaft of the hunter. The habits of the bear, in the third 

 Cynegetic, resemble those of the Polypus. The one retires in the 

 wintry season, to the shelter of his cavern ; the other to his habi- 

 tation in the deep : the one finds sustenance in licking his paws, 

 the other in the corrosion of its cirri. The same fondness for his 

 native haunts which we have already seen ascribed to the deer, in 

 the second book of the Cynegetics, is ascribed to the lobster in the 

 first of the Halieutics : and each description is accompanied with 

 similar reflections couched in almost the same language. 



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