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end Hugh Davies, declaring, " that it has been 

 his lot to see no less than four specimens, three of 

 Ij^hich were taken in the amusement of prawning, 

 below Beaumaris Green." 



Another instance is related of a similar fish be- 

 iqg captured by Mr Lewis Morris, brother to 

 the gentleman who sent the original specimen to 

 Mr Pennant. Of this fish, Mr Morris took a 

 short description, and a rude drawing, but suf- 

 ficient to identify the species. These are power- 

 ful auxiliaries in proof of the existence of such a 

 fish, if any thing was required, after we have Mr 

 Pennant's assertion that he had the original, 

 and sent an account of it to Gronovius, who de- 

 scribed and figured it in his Zoophylaceum, It is, 

 however, extraordinary, that neither Mr Pennant 

 nor Mr Davies, should have preserved an animal 

 so rare, and of so singular appearance, since it 

 was attended with no other trouble than putting 

 it into a small phial of spirits. It is a grateful 

 task in bearing record of the verity of the writ- 

 ings of a scientific friend, by existing facts, which 

 I am enabled to do, by being in possession of two 

 perfect specimens of Leptocephalus Morrisii. 

 These were presented to me by my valuable 

 scientific friend, Mr Anstice of Bridgewater, 

 having been taken near that place in the River 

 Pervet, one in the year 1810, the other the fol- 

 lowing year. Both were taken by a hand-net, 

 near the surface of the water. As these speci- 



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