Clafs IV. OF) O71) N)). GT ER, 11g 
_ The Romans held this fifth very cheap, probably 
from its likenefs to a fnake : 
Vos anguilla manet longe cognata colubre*, 
Vernula riparum pinguis torrente cloaca. 
For you, is kept a fink-fed fnake-like eel. 
On the contrary, the luxurious Sybarites were fo 
fond of thefe fifth, as to exempt from every kind of 
tribute the perfons who fold them **. 
ie pe ©, O, NG. EB OR 
Koyyeos. Arift. Hift. an. lib. Wil. Tcth. iti. Raii fm pifte 
I. &c. 
aie Leas 
Toyyeos. Oppian Halieut. I. Murzna fupremo margine pin- 
ne dorfalis nigro. Arted. 
i ABs 5211 - 
Conger. Ovidii Halieut. 115. _ /yn0n- 40. 
Plhinii lib. ix. c. 16. 20. Murena Conger. M. roftro 
Le Congre. Beton. 159: tentaculis duobus, linea la- 
Conger. Rondel. 394. Ge/ner pifc. terali ex punctis albida. Liz. 
Sift. 426. 
290. 
The Conger, or Conger Eel. 
HE conger grows to a vaft fize. Doctor Bor- 
lafe, to whom we are obliged for feveral in- 
formations relating to this fpecies, affure us, that 
they are fometimes taken near Mount’s-Bay of one 
hundred pounds weight +. 
They differ from the common eel in the follow- 
ing particulars: 1. Their color in general is more 
dark. 2. Their eyes much larger in proportion, 
* Fuvenal. Sat.v. 103. ** Athenaus. ib. xii. p. 521. 
+ We have heard of fome taken near Scaréoreugs that were 
ten feet and a half long, and eighteen inches in circumference 
in the thickeft part. 
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