^HE GLOBE, t3$ 



rhe Globe *. 



This fifh is feldom -a vifitor of the BritiJJj coaft ; one, 

 however, of the fpecies was taken at Penzance in Corn- 

 •wall. Its more common refidence is off the fliores of 

 Carolina. It is of an oblong fhape, of a foot and eight 

 inches in length ; the length of the globular belly, when 

 extended, is above one foot, and its circumference, when 

 in that ftate, is above two : This Angular power of in- 

 flating its belly, till it acquires a globular fhape of fuch 

 magnitude, feems to have been intended by Nature as the 

 defence of this animal ; it is then of a iize lefs eafily laid 

 hold of by its enemies, whilft the great number of fpines 

 with which its belly is funounded, renders it an obje£l of 

 terror *. 



The globe, upon the back, is of a rich deep blue ; the 

 fides and belly are white, fliagreened or wrinkled, and 

 befet with innumerable fmall fpines, each attached to the 

 Ikin by four proceffes. It has two peroral fins; a dorfal 

 one far back behind the globe, and oppofite to that an a- 

 nal fin. 



* Tetrodon locvigatus Lin, Syft, j Pennant, Clafs iv. gen. 9. 



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