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ropes and cords, chiefly for packing the bales of cotton; and of 

 the finer fort, the rtrings for mufical inftruments. 



Kaempfer has given good outhnes of feveral of the fifhes ; not 

 a few are common to our feas, fuch as x\\q. /potted JJjark^ Br. 

 Zool. iii. N° 46. our lampries, N° 27, 28, eels, and feverr.l other?. 

 The famous Fu Rube, the Tetraodon ocellatus, a hixury and a 

 jwifon before dcfcribed at p. 203 of this volume, is frequent. 

 Kaempfer* mentions the fatal efFedls of this fafcinating food. 

 Fishes. The few Other fiflies that 1 can enumerate from Linnaan 



authority are the following : 

 CaUionymus Japonicus, Gm. Lin., iii. 1155* 

 Uranofcopus Japonicus, 1157. 

 Coryphcena Japojtica, 1195. 

 Cottus Japonicus, 1213. 

 Scorpcsna voUtafis, 1217. 

 TleuroneBes Japoniciis, 1239. 

 Cbaetodon Imperator, 1255. 

 guttattis, 1256. 

 collar e, 1263. 

 mefomelas, ibid. 

 Spams argentatus, 1272. 

 boops, 1274. 

 latus, 1276. 

 virgatus, 1276. 

 notatus, 1272. 

 fufceJce7iSy 1279. 

 Labrus boops, 1291. 

 Gajierojleiis Japonicus, 1325. 



• Hift. of Jf^pon-, p. p. 134, 135; 



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