Common Angler procures the most important 
part of it's own ? 
I 
' From this opposition of opinions, however, 
the reader gains little knowledge of the fa6l, 
lA^hich appears still to remain problematical. 
We must, therefore, content ourselves, till 
firther'informatlon on the subject may occur, 
'with compleating our description of the fish, 
according to it's appearance, without farther 
notice of it's habits. 
Along the edges of the head and body arc ' 
a' great number of short, fringed, skinny sub- 
' stances, placed at equah distances. The ven- 
tral fins are broad, thick, and fleshy ; jointed 
like arms ; and, in the insides, divided into 
fingers. The aperture to the gills is situated' 
behind, and is very large;, the back fin is 
placed very low, near the beginning of the 
tail ; and the anal fin is beneath, nearly op- 
posite the former. The body becomes ex- 
ti'cmely slender near the tail, the end of 'which 
is quite even». 
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