134. Wes (BV Ms Clafs IV. 
Genus XVIII. Lower jaw loping down. 
Gill covers aculeated. 
| Six branchioftegous rays. 
Two dorfal fins. 
Anus near the breaft. Weerver. 
1, fhe WE EY. ke 
Apanuy? Arif. Hift. an. ib. Peter-manniken, Schwert- 
Vill. c. 13. -Llian. Hi/?. an. fifche. Schonevelde. 16. 
lib. ii.c. 50. Oppian. Halieut. The Weever. Wil. Icth. 238. 
ll. 459. ; Raii fyn. pife. oh. 
Draco marinus Plinit kb. ix. c. Trachinus maxilla inferiore 
27. Draco, Dracunculus. /76. longiore, cirris deftituta. 
xxxli. c. 11. Araneus. G6, Arted. fyn. 71, 
ix. c. 48. Trachinus Draco. Lin. ff. 453. 
La vive. Belen. 209. Gronov. Zooph. No. 274. 
Draco. Rondel. 300. Ge/nerpife. Farfing, Fiafling. Faun. fuec. 
77.786 No. 305. 
HE qualities of this fifh were well known to 
the antients, who take notice of them without 
any exaggeration: the wounds inflicted by its fpines 
are exceedingly painful, attended with a violent burn- 
ing, and moft pungent fhooting, and fometimes with 
an inflammation that will extend from the arm tg 
the fhoulder*. 
It is a2 common notion that thefe fymptoms pro- 
ceed from fomething more than the {mall wound 
this fifh is capable of inflicting ; and that there is a 
venom infufed into it, at left into fuch as is made by 
* It is probable that the malignity of the fymptoms arifes 
from the habit of body the perfon is in, or the part in which 
the wound is given. 
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