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them with Nofes in the exad: form, and full as 

 big as Quart Glafs-bottles, on which account they 

 have juftly acquired the name of Bottle-nofes. 

 N, B, They are much larger than the others. 

 They differ ftrangely from thofe found upon our 

 BrittiJJo Coafts; but that is no great matter of 

 wonder, fince they are of fuch various kinds. A- 

 bout Cape Horn, they are black on their Back 

 and Fins, and white underneath, with fharp white 

 Nofes : They often leap a good height out of the 

 Water, turning their white Bellies uppermoft, 

 fays Woods Rogers^ page 103. We ftruck at fe- 

 veral with a Fiz-gig, but had not the good for- 

 tune to hit and catch one. 



2. As foon as we entered Into the Trade- Wind^ 

 which does there generally blow from Ball to 

 Weft, we were entertained with a fort of Fiih 

 that proved entirely new, and of courfe highly 

 pleafing to me, viz, Flying-Fifhes, which. Sir 

 Hans Sloan fays, are of the Herring kind. They 

 are fomewhat longer than a Herring, though 

 they are rather thicker and rounder in Body : 

 They have a Fin on each fide, clofe to the Gills, 

 of about four inches long, being broadeft, as well 

 as a little rounded at the extremity, juft like 

 thofe blue and fpeckled Flies, with thick Heads, 

 fhort Bodies, and long fnake-coloured Tails, call- 

 ed by fome, T'aylors, and others, the Devil's Nee- 

 dles^ and by fome, May-Jiies, If they are chafed 



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