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because of its transparency. It is of a yellow and black 

 colour^ but the colour of the whole fish is like unto the white 

 of an egg ; he moves in the water just like a sea nettle. 

 I have drawn him here in his proper bigness. I am of 

 opinion, that the birds feed upon them, because the lambs, 

 pigeo7i-divers, and parret-diters are plentifully seen in those 

 places where these fish or sea insects are seen. The same 

 that I have delineated here I found in the South Bay in 

 Spitzhergen, on the 20th of June. 



2. Of the Snail Slime-fish.i 



These are also quite transparent, like unto the sea nettles, 

 but they are flat and wound about like a snail ; and so we 

 find upon the land the shells of such flat snails. It is very 

 remarkable, that out of the utmost part of him come two 

 stalks, like unto the beam of a pair of scales, hairy or rough 

 on each side, like unto a feather. With these stalks he 

 moves himself up and down like the sea nettle. They are 

 of a brown colour. They swim in great numbers in the sea, 

 as numerous as the dust in the sun. It is believed that the 

 whales feed upon them, but I cannot believe that they can 

 be so nourishing a food for the whales as to make them so 

 fat ; I rather believe that the lumhs, jiigeon-dhers, and 

 parret-divers feed upon them. We saw many of them in 

 the South-harbour at Spitzbergen, on the 20th day of June. 

 Amongst the ice I saw none. The seamen take these small 

 fish for sjyiders, and I should also have taken them to be 

 such, if I had not had them in my hand and looked more 

 curiously upon them, and found that they had no affinity 

 with the spiders. 



3. Of the Hat Slime-fish. 



Its upper part is like the fungusse or toadstools, for it is 

 ^ Limacinn arctica ; the Clio helicina of Phipps. Ai)p. p. 19.5. 



