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continue longer than six months, but in honey 

 it had lasted above a year; and then it would, 

 when plunged in warm water, give as much light 

 as ever it had done. 



THE PILOT FISH. 



The body of this fish is long, the head com- 

 pressed, rounding off in front, without scales as 

 far as the operculum. The mouth is small, the 

 jaws of equal length, and furnished with small 

 teeth ; the palate has a curved row of similar 

 teeth in front, and the tongue has teeth all 

 along. The colour varies in several species. 

 What is most remarkable in this fish is, that he is 

 a provisor, or guide, for the shark, when in search 

 of food. This opinion, long doubted, has been, 

 it seems, confirmed by Mr. Geoffrey, professor 

 in the Museum of Natural History at Paris, who 

 speaks as an eye witness, and describes how the 

 pilots (for two of them accompanied the shark 

 which he saw near Malta, on the 26th of May, 

 1798) led the fish to a piece of bacon which a 

 seaman had let down with a rope and hook ; and 

 how the shark obeyed their motions till he ar- 



