Class IV. 



DOLPHIN. 



>$5 



Cetaceous Fifh, wich teeth in both jaws. 



iir. 



DOLPHIN. 



AeX^/j, Ariji. Hifi-. mi. lib. 



vi. c. 12. AE^9/v. ^lian 



lib. I. f. i8. 

 Delphinus Flinii^ lib, ix. 



r.8. Le Daulpliin, ou oye 



de mer. Bchn Poijf 7 



Icth. 28. Rail fyn pifc. 



12 



Delphinus corpore longo fub- 



tereti, rclbo longo acute. 



Arted, fy7i, 105. 



Le Dauphin. Brijjon Cet. 233, 



Delphinus. Rondel, 459, G^ Delphinus Delphis. Lin, fyfi, 



ner pifc, 319. Caii opufc, 1 08,^ 



11^. Dolphin. Borlafe Corn-ojall, 



Delphinus Antiquorum. Wil. 2.6/L. tab. 27. Cranio GreenL 



L 115. 



24. Dol- 

 phin. 



HISTORIANS and philofophers feem to 

 have contended who fhould invent moft fa- 

 bles concerning this fifh. It was confecrated to 

 the Gods, was celebrated in the eariiefl: time for 

 its fondnefs of the human race, was honored with 

 the title of the Sacred Fifh '^\ and diilinguifhed by 

 thofe of Boy -loving^ and Fhihnthropifi, It gave rife 

 to a long train of inventions, proofs of the cre- 

 dulity and ignorance of the times. 



Arijiotle fleers the cleared of all the antients 

 from thefe fables, and gives in general fo faithful a 

 natural hiftory of this animal, as evinces the iupe- 

 rior judgment of that great^philofopher, in compa- 

 rifon to thofe who fucceeded him. But the elder 



Vol, III. 



•* Athenesus, 281, 



Tliny, 



