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OF the bony fi(h, we faw feveral beyond the 

 jfzores, but never one on this fide of thofe ifles ; 

 one of them was of a large fize, and we faw it at 

 a diflance ; the failors called it an Albecor, and 

 it is Dr. Linnaufs Scomber Thynnus. 



THE Dolphin of the Englifh is the Dorado of 

 the Portugueze> and Dr. Linn&us calls it Cory- 

 phcena Hippuris ; it is about two feet and a half 

 long, near the head fix inches deep, and three 

 inches broad ; from the head the Dolphin de- 

 creafes on all fides towards the tail, where its 

 perpendicular 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 

 bdly is white, and fometimes mixed with a 

 deep yellow, on the fides it has fome round pale 

 brown fpots. It has fix and not feven fins as was 

 imagined ; two of 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 fim is juft taken the 

 extremities of the moft outward rays in the tail 

 were eight inches one from another. Their mo- 

 tion when they fwam behind, or along fide of 

 the fhip, was very flow, and gave a fair oppor- 

 tunity to hit them with the harpoon, though 

 fome are taken with a hook and line, and a bait 

 of chicken bowels, fmall fim, or pieces of his 

 own ipecies, or the flying fim, which latter are 

 their chief food : and it is by their chafing them, 

 that the flying fim leave their element to find 

 ihelter in one to which they are ftrangers. The 

 Dolphins fometimes leap a fathom out of the 



water. 



