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His glorious Colours and Marks do then grow 

 iaint and fading, for one minute : And during 

 the other two minutes of his life, they vanifh 

 away and return back to their beauty again quick- 

 er than thought itfelf ; I do not mean that they 

 return to Perfedion of beauty ; but to be plain, 

 I want terms adequate to my Ideas, in order to 

 be rightly underftood. In fliort, in five or fix 

 minutes time this gay furprizing Objedt fills the 

 Traveller's Mind, with far more lofty Notions 

 of the great Creator's Wifdom and Magnificence 

 beftowed upon the inferiour part of the Animal 

 World, than ever it was capable of entertaining 

 before. When he is dead he looks juft like a 

 dead Salmon, and his Body eats like a Cod-fifh, 

 but I think it drier confiderably. It is a courfe 

 Fifh. A Maccarel jufl: taken out of the Sea is by 

 far the moft beautiful of Englijh Fifhes in my 

 judgment ; but alas ! its Colours are infinitely 

 fhort of thofe of a Dolphin. 



20. You will find in my Colledlion an Iron, 

 or rather rufty coloured, flat, and round Stone 

 (about the breadth of a Five Shilling Piece but 

 fomewhat thicker) that winds circularly in form 

 of a fpiral Line, feveral of which you have fince 

 fhewed me in Dr. JVoodward's Colledion, known 

 by the name of Snake-ftones or Cornua Ammonis, 

 I picked it up about nine years ago upon the Sea- 

 Coaft of Lincolnjlire i and upon looking round a 



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