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fresh as they arc caught, or dry them : they arc hard to be 

 digested. 



2. Of the Dragon-Fish.i 



It is peculiar to this fish to have two finns on his back, 

 the foremost whereof hath very long strings, about two 

 inches high above the back : the hindmost finn of the back 

 is not so high, but yet it goeth a great way all along the 

 back, and hath no such strings. He hath no gills ; in the 

 room of them he hath two blowing holes in his neck, and 

 on each side of these holes are two short finns, and under- 

 neath these on each side a broad one ; underneath his belly 

 he hath a long very narrow finn, that reaches to the tail. 

 His head is oblong, composed of many bones; he hath before 

 on his nose a rais'd part ; his tail is about an inch broad ; 

 his body is long, thin, and roundish, of a greyish silver 

 colour and shining ; his shape is likest to that of a young 

 hay, as well the head as the rest of the body. They are 

 caught between the Bears Island and Spitzhergen. We got 

 one ofif of Ilitland, when our cook flung out his bucket for 

 water, in which he took up one, with some small fish of the 

 shape of an herring, but they were not bigger than a joint of 

 your little finger. Our seamen informed me of some other 

 small fish, that are in the deep holes between the high moun- 

 tains, in the South Haven. 



3. Of the Dolphin.^ 



This is also a common fish, because we see them in 

 great numbers every where in the sea, chiefly before a storm 

 or hard weather, for then they jump in great numbers out of 



^ This may be a youug specimen of the Chimara tnonstrosa, a cartila- 

 ginous fish allied to the shark ("hay"), with which IMartens conifjares it. 



^ The dolphin {Delphinus Delphis). For detailed accounts of the 

 different species of Cetacea, see Dr. Gray's "Catalogue of the Mammalia 

 in the British Museum," part i. 



