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ftate, covers the deep in fome places for hundreds 

 of leagues. See Kalm and Ojbeck, The Madre- 

 pores and Millepores^ which incruft as it were the 

 bottom of the Ocean, and form banks, that at 

 length rife into iflands. The Corallines, and Sea- 

 fans, ^c, are fpread over them, as Grafs on the 

 Earth. 



But what words can exprefs the myriads that be- 

 long to the Vermes clafs ! the Nereides^ which illu- 

 minate the Ocean ; the Meduf^^ or Blubbers, food 

 for whales ; the Afterice \ the Scyllaa Pelagica^ feed- 

 ing amongft the Fucus ^ the Sea Pens ; the Holo- 

 tburia Phyfalis^ Befanties j the SepU , the Argo- 

 nauta^ &c. 



It were endlefs to attempt the Fijhes, The va- 

 rious kinds of flying Fiflies the Bonito ; the Albi- 

 core the Tunny \ the Pilot- fiQi, (Gafterofteus Buc- 

 tor^ Syft. 489 0 the Sucking-fiili, (Echeneis Re- 

 mora^ Syft. 446 •,) the fplendid Dolphin ; the fpiny 

 Oftracion^ &c. affording perpetual entertainment 

 and inftrudlion to the curious eye. 



Among the Amphibia^ the whole Turtle genus, 

 fleeping on the furface of the wave ; the voracious 

 Shark, thofe tygers of the ocean ; the Toad-fifli ; 

 the Fifhing-frog of America^ rioting in the paf- 

 tures of Sargazo^ and feeding on the Scyllaa Pela^ 

 gica ; called, by the failors, the Sea Hare. 



Above the feathered tribe, the Tropic-bird, 

 (Phaeton Mthereus^ Syft. 219,) foaring beyond the 

 reach of the eye; the Albatrofs, (Diomedea Em- 

 lanSy Syft. 214;) the Man of War-bird, (Peleca- 

 ms AquiluSy Syft. 216 0 the Shearwaters, (Prccel- 



U 4 laria^) 



