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Among the Llthophytes is that elegant madrepore or coral, called the madrepora 

 pertufa, Jli, Nidr. iv. tab. 11. fig. i. The ifis hippuris— tab. iv. fig. 8. The 

 gorgonia lepadifera — 11. tab, ix. fig. 2, Gorgonia placomus — in. tab. I. fig. r. 

 which grows to a vaft fize. Another fpecies of gorgonia, with {lender cylindri- 

 cal branches, figured in the yft?. Nidr. 11. tab. ix. fig. i. The vaft alcyonium 

 arboreum — iv. tab. xi. fig. 1 ; and fome other fpecies fent to me by the late bi- 

 Ihop Pontoppidan., from the Norwegian feas ; among which fhelter infinite num- 

 bers of marine animals. On one, I firft difcovered a concha anomia in the 

 recent ftate, which LiNNiEUs named the xinomia retufa, Vol.1, p. 1151. 

 No. 225. 



Among the animals which Linnj^ius calls vermes, is found the pennatulm mira- 

 bilis. Faun. Siiec. No. 2261 ; and a very fingular long-fpined echinus with a fmall 

 body, engraven by the above-cited worthy but credulous prelate. As a member of 

 the royal fociety at Dronthcim, in Norway, I wifli my brethren would be ftimu- 

 lated to a due attention to the wonders that furround them, and form a local 

 mufeum, confined to the fubje£ls of that extenfive kingdom. 



Exotic fruits flung on the coafts of Norway, which I have not defcribed in my 

 voyage to the Hebrides, are the following : 



Podc of the cajjia fijiulofa. 



The kidney-fhaped nut of the anacardium occidental. 



Fruit of the cucurbit a lagenaria, pifidia erythrina, and the cocos nucifera^ 



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The account of the fiflies of the- Norwegian fea may be thus improved. 



Among the fiflies which have hitherto fhunned our fhores, are the raicf clavata, 

 Muller, No. 209. Squalus fpinax. No. 312 ; length from twenty inches to three 

 feet : the back is purple, the belly flat and black : it is found in the muddy val- 

 lies of the fea, of one or two hundred fathoms deep, off Chrijiianfand. Sq. centrina, 

 3x3, which extends to the Mediterranean, the Pefce Porco of the Italians. The 

 ihinicsra monjlrofa, 320, a moft fingular fifli, Syngnathus typhle, and csquoreus, 

 324, 325. The regalecus glejve, fild kong, or king of the herrings, 335 j 

 Afcan. Icon. tab. xi ; found about Glafver, near Bergen, a mofl uncommon eel- 

 fhaped fifh, from ten to eleven feet in length, with a dorfal fin extending the length 

 of the back, and uniting with that of the tail ; its pedtoral fins filiform, ovated 

 at their ends, and one third the length of the body. Gadus brome, 341, is from 

 two to three feet long : an article of commerce frequent on all the coaft. 

 G.dipterygius, or byrke lang, 346. B/ennius raninus, cifufcus, 359, 360. Echincis 

 remora, 361, which extends to the Eaji and IFeJi Indies. Coryphisna novacula-, 

 362, common to the Mediterranean, Coryph. rupejiris, 363, which has alfo been 



taken 



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