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this was the only cartilaginous fifh we faw 

 on the whole paflage. 



Of the bony fifh, we faw feveral beyond 

 the Azores, bat never one on this fide of 

 thofe ifles. one of them was of a large fize, 

 and we faw it at a diftance ; the failors 

 called it an Aibeccr, and it is Dr. Linnaus's 

 Scomber Thynnus* 



The Dolphin of the EngHJh is the 

 Dorado of the Portuguese, and Dr. Linnceus 

 calls it Corypbana Hippurisy it is about 

 two feet and a half long, near the head 

 fix inches deep, and three inches broad ; 

 from the head the Dolphin decreafes on 

 all fides towards the tail, where its per- 

 pendicular depth is one inch and a half, and 

 its breadth hardly one inch. The colour 

 of the back near the head is a fine green 

 on a filver ground, but near the tail of 

 a deep blue ; the belly is white, and 

 fometimes mixed with a deep yellow, 

 on the fides it has fome round pale brown 

 foots. It has fix and not feven fins as was 

 imagined > two o^ them are on the breaft, 

 two on the belly, one at the tail extending 

 to the anus, and one along the whole back, 

 which is of a fine blue : when the fifh is 

 juft taken the extremities of the moft out- 

 ward rays in the tail were eight inches one 

 from another. Their motion when they 



B 2 fwan* 



