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The South Sea is rich in fiili, and has a great variety of fpecies ; 

 for though no branch of natural produdions, was attended with 

 more difficulties in the colle<5tion to us, not only from our very 

 {hort ftay in many places, but likewife becaufe we were obliged 

 almoft wholly to depend upon the natives of the feveral countries, 

 for this article, there being no expert iiiher-men on board ; yet the 



fea in various places yielded 



number of feventy-fo 



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unknown heretofore j befides about forty which are defcribed in the 

 Syflem of Nature of the celebrated Linnaius. Among them v/e 



have 



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genus 



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now has lain latent 



among the chcetodontesy but ought juflly to be feparated from 



The accurate obferver. Prof. Forfkal, whafe premature 



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death in Arabia, every lover of fcience muft fmcerely lament, had 

 the fame idea, though I knew nothing of it, as his book was not 



he calls the new genus 



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publifhed till after my return to Europe 5 

 acanthurus, and I gave it the name of barpuriis. The greatefl part of 

 the iiih in the South Sea are very good eating, many of them are 

 delicious, and would do honour to a Roman feafl ; ' only a few of 

 the branchioflegous are noxious, of which we felt the fatal q^q^s. 



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M. de BufFon has obferved, that 



feems to pleafe herfelf in calling feveral beings very nearly in 



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