NOTES ON CERTAIN FISHES 

 AND MARINE ANIMALS FOUND IN 

 NORFOLK. 



[MS. SLOAN. 1882. FOL. I45-146. ALTERED TO 21 AND 

 22, AND 1830 FOL. 23-30 AND 32-38.] 



[The introductory remarks, paragraphs one to three, will 

 be found in the volume of the Sloane MSS. numbered 1883 

 (labelled " Notes on Generation "), on pages 145 and 146, which are 

 altered to 21 and 23. They were placed in their present position 

 by Wilkin, but although appropriate, there is nothing to show 

 that they belong to the set of notes here reproduced, and they 

 may form memoranda for the beginning of some essay never 

 completed. The contents of the volume in question are of a 

 very miscellaneous character, and consist of fragmentary notes, 

 which appear to be memoranda jotted down at random.] 



[Fol. i^VJ It may well seeme no easie matter to 

 giue any considerable account of fishes and animals of 

 the sea wherein tis sayd that there are things creeping 

 innumerable both small and great beasts because they 

 Hue in an element wherein they are not so easely dis- 

 couerable notwithstanding probable it is that after this 

 long nauigation search of the ocean bayes creeks 

 Estuaries and riuers that there is scarce any fish butt 

 hath been seen by some man for the large & breathing 

 sort thereof do sometimes discouer themselues aboue 

 water and the other are in such numbers that some at 

 one time or other they are discouered and taken euen 

 the most barbarous nations being much addicted to 

 fishing and in America and the new discouered world 

 the people were well acquantd with fishes of sea and 

 riuers, and the fishes thereof haue been since described 

 by industrious writers. 



