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the amphibious or cartilaginous fishes, are the ray, 

 the torpedo, scate, dog-fish, saw-fish, fishing-frog, 

 and old- wife ; and among the spinous fishes, the 

 electrical eel, the conger, the sword-fish, the cod, 

 the whiting, the sole, the turbot, the dorado, the bo- 

 nito, the tunny, the mackarel, the roach, the barbel, 

 the mullet, the shad, the pilchard, the anchovy, and 

 several others. 



Whether the vast numbers of fish on the coast of 

 Chili, are owing to some peculiar local causes, or to 

 the small number of fishermen, it is a fact, sup- 

 ported by the testimony of the best informed naviga- 

 tors, that no country in the world furnishes a greater 

 quantity of those that are excellent.* 



The bays, harbours, and, in a particular manner, 

 the mouths of the large rivers, swarm with them of 



* In the road of Valpaa'aiso is caught an abundance of excellent 

 fish of all kinds, as king-fish, bream, soles, &c. besides an infinite 

 number of those that are migratory, as pilchards, and a species of 

 cod that come upon the coast in- the months of October, November 

 and December ; also shad, and a kind of anchovy, which at times 

 are in such multitudes, that they are caught with baskets on the 

 surface of the water. — Frazier's Voyage^ vol. i. 



We had also fish in such plenty, that one boat would, with hooks 

 and lines, catch, in a few hours, as much as would serve a large 

 ship's company two days ; they were of various sorts, all excellent 

 in their kind, and many of them weighed from twenty to thirty 

 pounds. — Haivkesivorth^ s Voyage of Commodore Byron^ chap.viii. 



This part of Masafuero is a very good place for refreshment, 

 especially in the summer season ; the goats have been mentioned 

 already, and there is all round the island such plenty of fish, that a 

 boat may, with three hooks and lines, catch as much as will serve 

 an hundred people ; among others we caught excellent soal fish, 

 cavallies, cod, halibut, and craw-fish, &c. — Haivkesiuorth'^s Voyage 

 of Capt. Carteret, chap, ii. 



