4So TRAVELS IM 
About twenty fmall fueking fifh were fafi^ 
cned to different parts of his body fo firmly, 
that they did not drop off when he was hoift- 
ed on board, but were taken with him. 
Some naturaiifts have fai^, that the hesid of 
the fucking fifh is vifcous on the lower part, 
and furnifhed with rough points fimilar to the 
teeth of a file ; and, according to them, it is by 
means of thefe two qualities, its roughneft 
and vifcofity, that it is enabled to adhere to 
other fiih. 
" Figure to yourfelf,*' fays one of them, a 
row of nineteen fharp-edged and dentated 
laminae, placed crolFwife, and ifTuing imme- 
" diately from the rim of the lower jaw, and 
" you will have a juft idea of the part with 
which the remora makes itfelf faft." 
This defcription is exact as far as relates to 
the figure and number of the dentated laminae j 
but it places them on the lower part of the 
head, whereas they are, in reality, on the 
upper. A^ccordingly, when the remora fixes 
itfelf, It Is obliged to turn upon Its back, with 
its belly upward. 
I am ignorant whether the two white fifh 
that pofted themfelves on the arms of the.fea- 
devily 
