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TI cannever imagine that the fhallow, barren, and turbulent fhores of the polar 
regions receive, as is popularly thought, the immenfe fhoals of Herrings and Cod 
which annually repair to other more fouthern feas. Their retreat muft be in the 
great depths before defcribed *, where they are fecure from the greateft ftorms, 
and probably enjoy a bottom luxuriant in plants and vermes. 
The Whale which inhabits thefe feas, and occafions the great refort of fhip- 
ping, is the common fpecies, Br. Zool. iii. N° 16. I have in that Work given 
its hiftory ; therefore fhall add no more, than that during fpring thefe animals 
keep near Greenland and the ifland of ‘fohn Mayen; and towards fummer they ap- 
pear in. the feas of Spitzbergen. The Fin Fifh, Br. Zool. iii. N° 18, is another 
{pecies : on their appearance, the Common Whale makes its retreat. The Be/uga 
or White Whale, p. 183 of this Work, is feen here in fummer, and prognofti- 
cates a good fifhery. 
The infects, vermes, and fhells, of Spitzbergen, are very few. The Prawn, 
Br. Zoal. iy. N° 28, and Sea Flea, N° 33, are found there. The Cancer Boreas, Am~ 
pulla, and Nugax, are three new fpecies+, added to the genus by the noble na- 
vigator. 
Of the known fpecies of vermes, the Afcidia Gelatinofa, Lin. Syft. 1087: the 
Afcidia Ruftica, 1087, 5: the Lernea Branchialis, 1092: and the Clio Helicina, the 
{mall Slime Fifh of Marten, p. 141, tab. Q, fig.e: andthe Clio Limacina, the Sea 
May fly of the fame, p. 169, tab. P. fig. 5: the Sipunculus Lendtx, a new f{pecies, 
Phips, 194, tab. xiii. are found here: the two laft, the fuppofed food of the Com- 
mon Whale, are met with in vaft abundance ¢: the Medu/a Capillata, the Afterias 
Pappofa, Lin. Syft. 1098: Af. Rubens, 1099; Aft. Peétinata, 1101 ; Br. Zool. iv. 
2°70: Aft. Opbiura, 1100; Br. Zool. iv. N° 62: and Af. Caput Medufe, Lin. 
Syft. rro1r 3 Br. Zool. iv. N° 73. And of Shells, the Chiton Ruber, 1107 ; Lapes 
Tintinnabulum, 1168: the Mya Truncata, 1112; Br. Zool. N° 14: and Afjtilus 
Rugofus, 11563; Br. Zool. iv. N° 72: the Buccinum Carinotum, anew {pecies, Phips, 
197, tab. xiii : Turbe Helicinus of the fame, 193: the Serpula Spirorbis, Lin. 
Syft. 1265; Br. Zool. iv. N° 155: Serpula Triquetra, 1265; Br. Zool. iv. N° 156: 
and the Sabella Fruftulofa, Phips, 198, complete the lift of this clafs. Among the 
Zoophytes is the Millepora Polymorpha, Lin. Syft. 1285 ; and A/illep. 1286; and a 
moft curious new genus, difcovered in the voyage, named the Synoicum Turgens, 
199, tab. xiii: the P/u/ira Piloja, Lin. Syft. and FY. ALembranacea, 1301, 3, 5: 
and, to conclude, that very curious Zeophyte, the foundation of the foffil Excrini, 
® Seep. + Phips Vay. 190, &c. tab. xii. Y The fame, p. 194, 195: 
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