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II. 

 SECOND PAPER ON FISH. 



MY DEAR FRIENDS, 



In my last lecture to you I endeavoured to 

 address you in that mood and way which would 

 best come home to your feelings, and show you 

 that I had only one object in view, that of 

 amusing and improving you. In fact, I wished 

 you to consider me as your true friend, and 

 such, I hope, I shall be found to be. You 

 appeared to listen attentively, as well as to like 

 what I wrote for you, a few evenings ago, on 

 the subject of fish in hot countries. Some of 

 you might have thought that what I then said 

 respecting fish making their way over land to 

 other waters and of their climbing up trees was 

 not very probable; nor can I wonder at it. 

 Now, I wish you to consider for a moment the 

 possibility of fishes being differently constructed 



