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REMARKS 



ON 



THE 



PRESER 



VATION 



OF MARI 



I^ERS. 



was known in various parts of Europe feveral centuries before the 

 difcovery o£ America by Chriilopher Columbus in 1493,- ^^^ ^^ 



A, 



is particularly to be remarked that in the North of Germany the 

 friars and. monks were obferved to dilTeminate the evil more than 

 any other fet of people. As this learned and ingenious gentleman 

 intends to communicate to the public the refult of his enquiries, 

 which I have here the happinefs to announce, we fhall be farther 

 convinced by irrefragable proofs, of the fads already aUerted in the 



h 



Philofophical Tranfadlions, vol, xxvii and xxxi. N^* 



365> 



I 



omit here a circumftance which befel us,. 



and miglit 



perhaps have proved fatal to many of us, if proper eare had not 

 been taken to prevent the ill confecLUences of it. 



Wh 



we were 



ch 



Port Sandwich 



Mallicollo 



on 



the 



3d of July 



1 774, our people caught in the night two or three large reddifh 

 liih, which they immediately cleared of the garbage and fcale?; 



L ■ 



and cut the belly and gills open, with fome of the, fins, fo that 

 when I got up in the morning, I fufped:ed them, to be a new kind of 



fifh, as we we were, not able 



defcribe 



examine them in this 



mangled flate: but as- we hoped to ilay many nights more in that 



place 



I expected to obtaia other fpecimens for examination j 



however we removed from that port the day after, without catch 



ing another 



fiih of the fame kind. 



When we were at New 



Caledonia, a failor caugkt another fifh of the fame fpecies during; 



the. 



