fwce it is jet namdefs, tvs m^y call Pifcis Echino-ftellaris Vifci- 
fbrmis-, its B^df Q as was noted M, Hook) re fembltng an^chw 
nus<?rEgg'fiih, the main Branches , 4 Star , and the dividing of 
the branches ^the FlmtW^^^-'^ot, This Fijh (f reads itfelf from 
<i Pentagonal Root, which incompafjeth the Mouth being in the 
middle at a) into main Lin^bs or branches y each of which ^ufl 
at the ijjuing otitfrom the Bod) frb- divides it felf into two {as at i,) 
and each of theje 10 branches do again Qati.) divide into two farts y 
making 20. leffer branches : Bach of which again, (^at ^.') divide 
into 2. fmaller branches y making in a/Iy^o, rhefe again {at/{,) 
into 80 5 andthofe^at 5. ) into 160 1, and they ( at 6. ) into 320 : 
they (at J.) into 6^o''j atS, into izSo hat g^into 2550- atio^ 
intoSizOi,at ii^into 102^0 \ at 12^ into 20480- at 13 j into 
409^0-, 4^14, intoSipio: beyond ivhich^ the farther expanding 
§f the Fifh could not be certainly tracd , though pofibly each ofthofe 
8rp 20 fmalfprotits orthreds , in which the branches^ of this Fifh 
feemd to terminate^ might, if it could have been examined when 
living , have beenfomd to f %b divide yet farther. T he Branches 
between the ^oynts were not equally of a length , though for the 
moflpart pretty near: B(^^ t ho fe branches ^ which were on that fide 
of the ^oynt , on which th e preceding ^'Ojnt was placed y were al- 
ways about a 4th (?r 5 th fart longer than thofe on the other fide. Every 
of thefe branchings feemed to have y from the very month to the 
fmalle(i twiggs or threds j in which it ended\ adouhk chain or 
rank of pores ^ as appears by the Figure. The Body of the Fiji) 
was onthe other ftde 5 and feemed to have been protuberant y much 
like an Echinus ( Egg-Fifti or Button- Fidi ^and^ like that ^divided 
into ^.ribbs or r/dges J and each of thefe jeemed to be kept out by 
twofmall bony riibs. 
In the Figure is reprefented fully and at length but one of the main 
branches ^whence 'tis eafy to imagine the re/lyCut off at the ^thfub-di- 
viding Branch-phich was done to avoyd Confufton ds well as too mnch 
Ubmr andexpmce of time in the Engraving, 
The FigMre^well viewed andconfidered^ will be more inflruBive^ 
than a larger D^fcmrfe there^r^ ^ though lather particularities might 
have been mention d^ ^f the drjnefs^ perplexcdnefs and brit- 
tknefs of the Fi[h ha d nol hindred it, 
Th^ 
