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per to divide/w^esinto such as breathe with lungs, 

 and such as breathe with gills ; and then to sub- 

 divide those that breathe with giHs, not into 

 cartilaginous and spinous, but into viviparous 

 and oviparous. 



The viviparous kind, that breathe with gills, 

 he subdivides into long, such as the galei and 

 eanes 9 .or sharks and dogjish : and broad; such 

 as the pastinaca, raja, See. &c. the subdivisions 

 of each whereof, he gives in his chapter of car- 

 tilaginous fahes in general. 



The oviparous kind that breathe with gills, are 

 the most numerous ; and these he subdivides 

 into such as are what we usually call flat-fish ; 

 and such as swim with their backs upright, or 

 at right angles to the horizon. 



The plain orjiat-fishk'md, called usually plani 

 spinosi, are either quadrati, as the rombi and 

 passeres, or those of the turbo I and flounder 

 kind ; or longuisculi, as the sola, or sole kind, 



Such as swim with their backs erect, are either 

 long and smooth, and without scales, as the eel 

 kind, or shorter and less smooth ; and these have 

 either but one pair of fins at their gills, which 

 are called orbes and congeneres, or else another 



fair of fins also on their bellies ; which latter 

 ind he subdivides into two kinds : 1. Such as 

 have no prickly Jim on their backs, but soft and 

 flexible ones. 2. Such as \ibvepricktyjihs on 

 their backs. 



Those^sAes which have only soft and flexible 

 fins on their backs, may be divided into such as 

 have three, tzco, or but one single Jin there. 



No fish but the aselli have three Jins on their 

 backs. 



Fishes with tzco Jins on their backs, are either 



