UNICORNIS, Pifis 
The Bahama Unicorn-Fifo. 
Px Ee HESE Fith fometimes grow to the 
eg [ay length of three feet. 
This was in 
ape not unlike a rolling pin, 
the biggeft part of it being the 
3 peas growing tapering towards 
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e head and tail; the eye large, 
with a ebecionred iris eiieled with blue ; 
two folid white bones, covered with a thin fkin, 
formed each mandible, in which were inferted fix 
teeth, two in the upper and four in the under jaw, 
which was longer than the upper. On the hind 
part of the back grows a pretty long {tiff fin, op- 
pofite to which, under the belly; grows another of 
the like fins, and two behind the gills 3. the tail-fin 
was long, ftiff, and bony, ferrated at the end; 
and when fpread very wide. ‘The ftructure of this 
Fifh, as well as its marks, are very fingular and 
ee from any other. Yet the moft renavleenle 
part of it is a tapering fharp-pointed bone, growing 
from the top of the back, a little behind the eyes, 
which it can raife, and point backward and forward 
at his pleafure; and, when laid along on its back, 
eafily broke, by which one would thin 
defenfive a weapon, as otherwife Nature feem 
have defigned it for. A canes olive-coloured {kin 
without {cales covered the whole Fifth, with many 
blue waved lines of different rei fome long ones 
refembling worms, and others maggots, between 
which were {prinkled many round black patches. 
The guts were full of corallium ihe fmall fhells 
and other corolline fubftances, of which was 
ground very {mall; which, iS ie. eee - 
hardnefs of its jaws, Nature has ena led i 
perform. Thefe Fifh are not eat, being ae 
poifonous. They moft frequent thofe Seas amongft 
the Bahama Mlands, where the corals are moft plen- 
tiiul. 
s to 
Babhamenfis. 
Poitlon 
Licorne de Bahamas 
Oa) e & la queue: il 
avoit lode grand, avec une iris claire bordée . 
Ble: deueas Blancs & Joli ides, couverts d’une pea 
tres wae Sormoient les machoires, dans Le ofquellet 
étoient plantées fix dents, deux dans la fupérieure, & 
quatre dans Vinféerieure, qui étoit la plus longue 
ur le derriere du dos it affez longué 
nageoire roi > vis a-vis de celle-ci il yen 2 avoit 
nageoire de - quewe étoit 
ufe, de a fon extrémite, & 
fort large lor, hie elle étoit étendue. a forme de cé 
poiffon & P Jes couleurs font tres fi ee: & ne lui 
Mies communes avec le autre. 
& 
tantot en arriere, is dl lui f ait 3 3 & lors qu “ 
p ee fur ee 0s, il atteint jufqu’a la nageoire : 
fort caffant, ce qui comer lieu de penfer 
os “ ‘ef pat oT une alee gra défenfe pour 
repondre a Vufage auguel il yes gue la Hata 
La deffiné. Pint le ce étoit couvert d'une peau 
Jans écailles d'un brun olivétre, avec plufieurs ray 
bleues ondées de di ifferentes longueurs, dont les plus 
ong ues reffembloient a des vers, & lés autres a des 
iffeaux, &§ dont les ae étoient Jemées dé 
plufieurs téches noires & r : Jes inteftins étoient 
remplis de corail poreux, ee petites coquilles & 
ad autres ttiatieres corallines, do Ss keane 
partie étoit reduite en pouffi tere fot HCN. 6B que 
la Nature a rendu capabie de faire en lui donnant 
des fee Jortes & dures. On ne 
ciffons ; car on les cr ‘oit Venimeux. 
beaucoup les Mers d’entre les iles Bahama, ot il y ad 
le plus de coraux. 
