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one Man is a Negro, another a Dutch Man, and another a 

 Chinese. 



To return to our Fish. A certain Naturalist calls that 

 which is mark'd A, a Sea-Swallow, and attributes a great 

 many Properties to it, which I shall not repeat. That which 

 I have mark'd B, is called a Mullet, in Sanson Mathurins^ 

 Journal ; he was a famous Pilot in the Mediterranean, and 

 us'd to see them in the Gidinh of Lyons and elsewhere. The 

 3rd, mark'd C, was taken from the K. of Benmarlzs Cabinet, 

 where I have some reason to believe 'tis not exactly design'd : 

 For when these Animals grow dry, 'tis a hard matter to 

 observe their true Form. There are some of them that 

 have four Wings. Those we eat tasted something likO' a 

 Herring. 



These poor little Creatures, that may be taken for an 

 Emblem of perpetual P'ear, are continually flying and rising to 

 save themselves; they are very often caught in the Ship's 

 Sails : they fly as long as there remains any Moisture in their 

 Wings ; which, as soon as they are dry, turn to Fins again ; 

 and they are forc'd to take again to the water, or else, their 

 Fright is always so great, they would fly to the End of the 

 World. 



Tlie Efforts they make to become rather Inhabitants of 

 the Air than of the Water, is to avoid the Persecution of the 

 Goldfish and the Bonita's, who are at eternal War with them. 

 But these wretched Animals fly from one Peril, and are 

 immediately overtaken by another ; for the cruel Birds are 

 their irreconcilable Enemies, and always ou the watch in 

 great Flocks to devour them, as soon as they enter the new 

 Element, where they thought they shou'd find an Asylum 

 from their Foes of the Sea. The Porpoises make the same 

 War upon the Goldfish, as the latter do on the Flying Fish : 

 and all this gives us a true Image of human Life; which is 



1 Sanson Matlmrin, after whom, probably, Port Matliuriu, in Rod- 

 riguez, was named. 



