SPl IZISKUGKN AND Ci IIKKNI, AM). 139 



(). Of the Slime-Fish like- a Fountain.' 



The sixth and last is a very notable fish ; it hath a hole at 

 the top like unto the qnill of a goose (that may perhaps be 

 his mouth), which goes into a cavity like a funnel, Avhere- 

 fore we might call him ?i funnel-fish. From this hole come 

 down four strokes, two and two exactly opposite to one 

 another : two of them are cut transversedly, and two are not 

 cut. Those that are not cut are about half the breadth of a 

 straw, and the others, that are like unto the backbone of a 

 snake, are as broad as a straw ; both of them come down 

 beyond the middle of the Avhole body. From the middle of 

 the funnel come down four others, like unto the backbones 

 of a snake, and they come down lower than the others ; so 

 that all of them make eight in number : they chang'd their 

 colour, as we look'd upon them, into blew, yellow, and red, 

 with such delicate colours as a rainbow. They look'd in 

 my eyes to be like unto a fountain, with eight streams or 

 spouts, wherefore we might call it ^fountain-fish with eight 

 streams. 



Within him came down from the end of the funnel some- 

 thing like a cloud, that divided itself into rows, which I take 

 to be his intrails. "Where the before-mention'd outward 

 streaks end themselves, the body is first bent in somewhat, 

 then it turns round, and then it hath many small streaks. 

 The whole body is as white as milk. I believe it weigh'd 

 about four ounces. I did not perceive that he did burn ones 

 skin, but he did, like him I mentioned before, dissolve like 

 slime. Since, I have seen other sorts of these sea-nettles in 

 the Spanish Sea, that weigh'd several pounds, and they were 



^ Medusa Infundibulum. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 3152-.3. Cuvier thinks it 

 another species, and to belong to another division (Regne animal). 



