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The bark ftands firmly rooted in the fea. 

 And will, unmov'd, nor winds nor waves obey 1 

 Still, *s when calms have flatted all the plain. 

 And infant waves fcarce wrinkle on the main. 

 No fliip in harbor moor'd fo carelefs rides. 

 When ruffling waters tell the flowing tides. 

 Appall'd the failors flare, thro' ftrange furprize. 

 Believe they dream, and rub their waking eyes. 

 As when, unerring from the huntfman's bow. 

 The feather'd death arrefts the flying doe. 

 Struck thro', the dying beaft falls fudden down. 

 The parts grow fliflf, and all the motion's gone j 

 Such fudden force the floating captive binds, 

 Tho' beat by waves, and urg'd by driving winds. 



CORYPHiENA. Head Hoping, and truncated : the dorfal fin XXI. CORY= 

 PHCENE. 

 extending the length of the back. Linn^^eus. 



Catejby, ii. 18. — Novacula csrulea, Wil. ISih. 214. 07. Blue. 



C^ Wholly of a rich blue color : irides red : fcales large : tail in 

 form of a crefcent : teeth fo clofely placed as to feem an entire 

 bone. Length, fometimes above two feet. 



Inhabits the feas of the B-ahama ifles, and from thence to the line. Place, 



Catejby, ii. 29. — ^C. Pfittacus, Lin. 448. - qg. Parrot. 



r^ With blunt teeth paving the mouth like that of the Wolf Fifh : irides 

 confifl of two circles, red and yellow : a blue circle furrounds the 

 eyes: upper part of the head brown ; lower part, and covers of the gill, 

 blue, edged with red j a yellow fmall fpot is feen juft beyond each of the 

 gills : a fcarlet ftrokc points froitt them to the throat : bgdy of a fine 

 4 greens 



