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SECT. IIL THORACIC. 



XX. REMOS.A. Echeneis, Lin. 446. Genus clvii, 



ILJ E A D flat at top, marginated, and fulcated tranrverfely. 

 96; Americam, Catefiy, ii. 26. — Ech. neucrates, Lin. 446. 



R. 



With fixteen furrows on the head. Length about a foot. 

 Placi. Inhabits the ocean quite to North America: is often found adhering 



fo ftrongly to the fides of Sharks and other great fifh, by means of the 

 ftrufture of its head, as to be got off with difficulty. 



This filh was believed, by all the antients, to have mofl: wonderful 

 powers, and to be able, by adhering to the bottom, to arreft the motion 

 of a fhip in its fuUeft courfej and in love affairs, to deaden the warmeft 

 affedions of both fexes*. Opfian gives an elegant account of its won- 

 drous operations in the firft inftance ; which we Ihall give from the 

 tranflation which Mr. John Jones favored the world with from the Ox» 

 ford prefs, in 1722. 



The Siitking-Fifh beneath, with fecret chains, 

 Clung to the keel, the fwiftefl fhip detains. 

 The feamen run confus'd, no labor's fpar'd. 

 Let fly the fheets, and hoift the tdpmoft yard. 

 The mailer bids them give her all the fails. 

 To court the winds, and catch the coming galesj 

 But tho' the canvas bellies with the blafl:. 

 And boift'rous winds bend down the cracking maft, 



* Plin, lib. ix. €. 25° 



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