Contents of the Ninth Book. 



105 



CHAP. 



38. How the purple Shell - fishes 



are taken. 



39. When Purple was first worn 



in Rome. 



40. The Price of purple Cloth at 



Rome. 



41. The dyeing of the Amethyst 



Colour, of the Scarlet in 

 Grain, and the light Scarlet 

 Hysginus. 



42. Of the Pinna and Pinnoteres: 



also the Intelligence of Crea- 

 tures of the Water. 



43. Of Scolopendres, Sea Foxes, 



and the Fishes Glani. 



44. Of the Fish called the Sea 



Ram. 



45. Of those Things which have a 



third Nature, being neither 

 living Creatures, nor yet 

 Plants; of Sea Nettles and 

 Sponges. 



46. Of Hound-fishes. 



47. Of such as have stony Shells : 



of those that have no Sense : 

 of other sordid Creatures. 



CHAP. 



48. Of venomous Fishes. 



49. The Diseases incident to Fishes. 



50. The surprising Generation of 



Fishes. 



51. Another Discourse of their 



Generation : and what Fishes 

 lay Eggs. 



52. The Wombs of Fishes. 



53. What Fishes live longest. 



54. Of Oyster Pits, and who first 



devised them. 



55. Who first invented Ponds to 



feed the Mursena in. 



56. The Ponds for other Shell- 



fishes, and who first used 

 them. 



57. Of Fishes that haunt the Land. 



58. The Rats of the Nile. 



59. Of the Fish called Anthias, and 



how it is taken. 



60. Of Sea Stars. 



61. Of the Fishes Dactyli, and their 



admirable Properties. 



62. What Fishes entertain Amity 



one with another, and which 

 are ever at War. 



In sum, this Book containeth Histories and Observations to the Number 

 of 650, collected 



OUT or LATIN AUTHORS : 



Turanius Graccula, Trogus, Mecanas, Alfius Flavus, Cornelius Nepos, 

 Laberius the Writer of merry Epigrams, Fubianus, Fenestella, Mutianus, 

 JElius Stilo, Statins Sebosus, Melissus, Seneca, Cicero, Macer, JEmylius, 

 Messala Corvinus, Trebius Niger, and Nigidius. 



OUT OF FOREIGN WRITERS: 



Aristotle, King Archelaus, Callimachus, Democritus, Theophrastus, 

 rasyllus, Hegesidemus of Cythnos, and Alexander Polyhistor. 



