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LECTURE VIII. 
Coryphene is contemplated by sailors with as 
much delight as the ancient Romans are said to 
have exhibited on viewing similar changes in the 
expiring Mullet, when brought to their tables, 
before the feast began. 
Among the smallest Fishes of this genus is the 
C. Nomcula or Razor Coryphene, so named on 
account of its extreme thinness of body : it is of a 
reddish-yellow colour, varied in some parts with 
blue lines and spots. 
The genus Echeneis or Remora is a highly sin- 
gular one, and is readily distinguished by the very 
remarkable structure of the head, which is flat- 
tened on the top into the form of an oval space, 
divided down the middle, and crossed by very nu- 
merous partitions, beset on the edges with small 
fibres. By this part the Fishes of this genus 
are enabled to adhere with the utmost tenacity 
to any moderately flat surface, and thus frequent- 
ly affix themselves either to the sides of ships, 
or to Sharks and many other of the larger 
Fishes. 
The ancients imagined that these Fishes pos- 
sessed the power of stopping a vessel in full sail 
by thus adhering to it, and rendering it immove- 
