the South -Sea. 12 1 



Laftly, to make good the Air that may get out, he has 

 two Leather Pipes before him, through which he blows 

 into the Bags when there is Occafion. 



That Sort of Invention is not new in our Continent : 

 When Alexander the Great pafs'd the Oxus and xhzTanah? 

 Part of his Troops crofs'tf thofe Rivers on Hides filFd 

 with Straw j and S. Jerome, in his Epiftles, tells us, that 

 Malchm made his Efcape on Goats Skins r with which he 

 crofs'd a River; 



The great Fifliery is carry'd on at Concon, a Hamlet two 

 Leagues N. and by E. from Valparaifo by Sea, where there 

 is a Creek into which the River of Aconcagua, or of Chili r 

 which runs by Quillota, falls. There is Anchorage for Ships, 

 but the Sea almoft continually runs high : There they take 

 Corbinor, a Sort of FiQi known in Spain, Tollos and Peze- 

 gallos, which they dry to fend to Santiago, which is alfo* 

 ferv'd with frefli Fifli from thence; 



The kft of them takes its Name from its Shape, be- PezegaM 

 eaufe it has a Sort of Comb, or rather a Trunk, which has 

 given Occafion to the Creolians to call it Pezegallb, that is 

 Cock-Fifli. The French call it Demoifelle, or Elephant, be' 

 caufe of its Trunk, which is here to be feen, as I drew it 

 by the Life ; that mark'd M is a Point fo hard, that it may 

 be made ufe of inffcad of an Awl to pierce the dryeft 

 Hides. 



In the Bay of Valparaifo, there is a plentiful Fiffiery o£Fifke$l 

 all Sorts of good Filh, as Pezemer, delicate Gurnards^ 

 Soles as above fpoken of, Mullets,^, not to mention an in»- 

 finite Number of other Fillies that come in their proper Sea- 



R fons^ 



Flate XVII. Page 121. explain A wEnglUhi 

 Petinbuaba*. A Fifh fo calN. 

 Scie renverfe, A Saw- Fifh turnd on its Bach 

 Scie en Profil, The Profile of the fame Fifh.. 

 Ecrevifle, &c. A Sea-Crab, or Crave-Fi[h.. 

 Gheval Marin, ASea-Borfe% 

 1 cze GaJlo, ou Poiflon Coq ? fh Cgd-&M< 



