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broad. A certain Indian king kept and fed one of them 

 with bread twenty-six years in a lake near his house, 

 which grew tame beyond all that the ancients have 

 written of dolphins. He would sometimes carry a 

 few people on his back across the lake with ease. 

 There is the head of one in Gresham College." 



" In the Mauritius there is a fish called Man-atee, 

 which useth both elements ; its fins serve for stilts at 

 land as they do for oars at sea. It delights at be- 

 holding a man's face, and is valuable for a stone found 

 HI the head, which being pounded and drank in wine, 

 fasting, cures the cholick." 



Apropos of dolphins, we light once more upon our 

 friend Harris. Appion tells us that " he was an 

 eyewitness, besides many more that flocked from 

 afar off to see, of a dolphin which a boy on his way to 

 school on the Lake Lucrin used to feed, and in return 

 for this kindness, the dolphin would carry the boy 

 across on its back over the bay from Bara to Puzzoli." 

 But we have not done with Harris ; he is evidently 

 strong upon dolphins. " Sir Thomas Herbert tells 

 him, Harris, that they much affect the company of 

 uien, and are nourished like men ; they are always 

 3onstant to their mates, so tenderly affected to their 

 parents that when they are 300 years old, they feed 

 and defend them against hungry fishes ; and when 

 they die, carry them ashore and bury them." 



" In China," says Thevenot, " there is a fish that 



