thefe, he obferves, poffeifed this power to a very 
reat degree, and could communicate the hock to one per- 
on, or any number of perfons, either by the immediate 
touch of the fifth with the hand, or by the intervention of. 
any metalline rod. The keeper of thefe fifhes told him, that 
when firll caught, they could give a much ftronger fhock, 
by means of a metalline conduétor, than afterwards. The 
perfon who is to receive the fhock muit take the fih in both 
hands, at fome confiderable diftance afunder, fo as to form 
the communication, or he will not receive it; at leaft, fays 
G never law any one fhocked from taking hold. 
of it with one hand only, though fome have affured me that 
one hand upon it. I myfelf 
with one hand often, without 
ever receiving a fhock ; ith both 
hands, at re diftance afunder, without feeling a {mart 
fhock. The fhock whic i 
ail, to that they can hen il live fifh are 
vara into the water, they firft give them a fhock,.which fo. 
ftupi that : 
t a time when they are 
a 
hungry, they give him fome {mart fhocks, till he is apparently 
im in; but 
t is foon 
. 
es, But 
the article 
Carapo. Naked, uniformly brown ; lower jaw fhorter ; 
Gymnotus carapo, Linn, 
urinam. 
Marine vermes, crultaceous her 
this, nor any other of the remaining f{pecies of gymnotus, feem 
to poflefs the fame Galvanic properties as the firft-mentioned 
sind. - v 
tranfverfely _ilriped A lower jaw. 
point, Li 
tail, and, inferior fize of the body ; and is confidered by. 
It inhabits. the fame 
‘Axzus. White, back convex; lower jaw longer ; upper lip 
on each fide with a {mall lobe before the angle of the mouth, 
Pallas. White gymnote. 
Size and general afpet of the laf; the colour white or 
whitifh. The fpecies inhabits Surinam. wins 
osrRATus. Snout fubulate; anal fin fhorter than the 
tail, Seba, &c. Snouted mnote. .. * ay 
Body fpotted and fomewhat acute. A native of Suti- 
nam. : oi 
e m t > b E ft 
-sicus. Naked; no ventral fins 3 anal fin with fixty rays 
terminating before the tip of the tail. Brunnich. Needle 
mnote: 
Inhabits. the Mediterranean; the 
& 
tapering, comprefled, and ending in a point ;“ the 
whitith with reddith. i 
blueith tinge. 
ALBIFRO: ‘yn 
tng ngrteizents Pallas, White-fronted apteronoie. her 
> nat i i : u 
uth deep ; hs 
lower ; pectoral fins black ; anal beginning from the throats, 
tail compreffed, fl 
at tl 
gill-cover 
LATICUS, | Scaly ‘ 
- notus Afiaticus, Gmel. 
