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and of a yellowifh color, marked with large annu- 
lar {pots: the eyes very fmall, and almoft covered 
with the fkin; behind each is a femilunar orifice; 
the mouth is placed below, and furnifhed with {mall 
fharp teeth. 
Along each fide of the body is a narrow fin; near 
the vent two others. ‘The tail is thick towards the 
bafe, and grows {mall towards the end: on the up- 
per part are two {mall fins placed near each other ; 
the end is round. 
Thefe fith inhabite hot, or at leaft warm climates, 
and are very rarely taken in the Briti/h feas: the 
only one we ever heard of on our coafts, being 
took off the county of Waterford. 
** With blunt teeth. 
Woethes.£ EO, R NB A.C. KR. 
La Rayebouclée. Belox.70o. Raia clavata. Lin. yf. 2976 
Raia clavata. Rondel. 353. Gronov. Zooph. No. 154. 
Gefner pife. 795. R. aculeata dentibus tubercu- 
Steinroch. Schonevelde, 59. lofis, cartilagine tranfverfa 
_ Thornback. Wil. Icth 74. — abdominali. Arted. fjnon. 94. 
Rati yn. pifa 26. Racka. Faun. fuec. No. 293» 
HIS common fifh is eafily diftinguifhed from 
the others by the rows of {trong fharp fpines, 
difpofed along the back andtail. In a large one we 
faw, were three rows on the back, and five on the 
tail, all inclining towards its end. 
On the nofe, and on the inner fide of the fore- 
head near the eyes, were a few fpines, and others 
were 
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