Mr IR^y, and their Defcri prions taken from the fifhes 
themlelves, not tranfcribed out of books. As for the 
Indian Fifhes, they are partly borrowed from the beft 
Authors^ who have travelled xki^ Indies^ partly from dry- 
ed fifhes found ixi Mufeeums, 
The 5^ book contains the f<«r^ii/«^m^(?2^j' kind.Thefe 
have Gills in common with the Spinofe Tribe, but in- 
fl:ead of fingle apertures have five oblong holes on each 
fide. Thefe all want Scales and the fwimming bladder^ 
have griflles inftead of bones, as their name imports^, 
have their mouths in the prone or under fide of their 
bodys; the Males have two PenMAike appendices zn- 
uexed to the finsencompaffing the Vent, and generate 
as is before declared. Many of thefe fifhes are very 
voracious, and of fpeedy concodion, as the Sharks- yet 
no Acid humour is to be perceived by taft in their Sto- 
macks, of which there is a very memorable example. 
The 4'^ Book, which comprehends all the Spinoje and^ 
Oviparous fifhes, is divided into many Serious orfubalter- 
nate genera, the titles whereof are already enumerated. 
In the of which Sedlions, which is concerning 
round or ihort bodyed fifhes, there is a great number 
never before publifhed, exadily defcribed and figured, 
the dikovery and obfervation whereof is wholly owing 
to the Induftry of the learned and ingenious DriWbr/^m 
Lifter^ who with great pains and diligence fearched 
them out in the publick Mufceums and Cabinets about 
London. PoflSbly there might be found as great diver- 
fity's in fome other kinds of fifhes, had they been with 
the like diligence lought out by Mariners and Fijher^ 
men^ who may think thofe of an uncouth fliape, of a 
Cruftaceous Skin, and difpofition to dry, and keep 
without alteration of figure, to be the beft merchant 
dize for them; fo that they may perhaps negled and. 
flight m^ny other kinds. 
In this Sedioa is alfb an Account given of the man^ 
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