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The whole body of this fifh is covered with filverfcales 

 much refembling filver fpangles, they lie clofe together. 

 There is no variety of colour upon the whole fifh except- 

 ing a fhade of red upon the end of the nofe, which is fat 

 and fleihy. His eye is large and black, with a broad iris of 

 white ftained with yellow. It has a number of fmall teeth 

 very {harp and clofely fet, nature has probably given him 

 this quantity of fins to fave him from the crocodile, whom 

 by his fize he feems deftined to feed. 



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CARETTA, or SEA-TORTOISE. 



AMONG the natural productions of the Red Sea, which 

 either have b^cn or are at prefent articles of commerce, 

 1 (hall juft fpeak a little of that fpecies of the Teftudo 

 or Tortoife, called the Caretta or Hawk's-bill. It is greatly in- 

 ferior in fize to the Weft Indian or American fea- tortoife. The 

 extreme length of the fhell of this was 3 feet 7 inches, and 



which 



