118 



ELECTRIC RAY. Class IV. 



6. Electric. Nap j«j. Arist. Hist. an. lib. 



v. c. 5. ix. c. 37- Oppian 



Halieut. i. 104. ii. 56. iii. 



149. 

 Torpedo. Plinii lib. ix. c. 42. 

 La Tremble ou Torpille. Be- 



lon 78, 81. 

 Torpedo. Rondel. Gesnerpisc. 

 Torpedo. Cramp Fish. Wil. 



Ichth.ii. RaiiSyn. pise. 28. 

 Smith's Hist. Wat erf or d, 271. 

 Raia Torpedo. Lin. Syst.3Q5. 



Gm. Lin. 1504. 

 Raia tota laevis. Arted. Synon. 



102. Gronov. Zooph. No. 



153. ta£. 9. 

 JTaM ira Ph. Tr. 1773. p.46l. 



1774. p. 464. Hunter, ib. 



1773. p. 481. Cavendish, ib. 



1776. p. 196. 

 Torpedo Ray. Shaw Gen. Zool. 



v.part 2. 297. 

 La Torpille. Block ichth. iv. 



40. tab. 122. 

 La Raie Torpille. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons. i. 



82. tab. 6. fig. 1. 



JL HE narcotic or numbing quality of this fish 

 has been taken notice of in all ages : it is so 

 powerful when the fish is alive, as instantly to 

 deprive the person who touches it of the use of 

 his arm, and even to affect him if he touches it 

 with a stick. Oppian goes so far as to say, that 

 it will benumb the astonished fisherman, even 

 through the whole length of line and rod. 



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