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as it uxre with the fight of a continued Flame, raifedby 
tJ?eir rowing ; which I afcribe rather to the Sahne Parti- 
ties of the Sea'Water,which were then put into a violent 
Agitatio.n.than to the Spawn of Fi{h,as fonfie of our Com- 
pany imagined. 
Sailing toward the weft of Portland^ we faw feveral 
Porptfces playing with their heads above Water; which 
I mention only, becaufe the Seamen look upon them as 
forerunners of a Storm; tJ^e Wind foon after blowirg ve- 
ry hard at N. by E. And afterv^^ards arriving at Conftan- 
ttnople.xh^ Wind blowing a ftiff Gale at North ^\ obferved 
with a pleafing kind of aftoni(hment good part of the 
Propontisy that is, from the Seraglio Point toward the I- 
llands, which lye againft the Bay of Nicowedia^Ezfiwsird 
and South-Eaft from us, as tar as we could fee, covered as 
it were with Porpijces, which appeared every where in 
great abundance. So that I am very apt to believe that 
Julius Solium in Chap, ii. of his Polykifior is to be un- 
derftood of Porpifces, and not of Dolphins ^no^^ properly 
fp called, though that be his word, (peaking of the Bo- 
fphorus and Propontii : H£C profunda Delphinas plurimos 
halent : and foon atter, an/e omnia nihil velocim habent 
maria ^fic ut plerun^ue tranfvolent vela navium. I could 
not hear that any Dolphins are caught in thofe Seas by the 
Greeks^ whofe poverty, added to the love which their Na- 
tion has for fiih, and the advantage arifing thence,upon 
the account of their folemn Fafts and Abftinences frcm 
all flefhj even to a wonderful ftrid:nefs and fcrupulofity, 
has made them excellent Filliermen : nor did I ever fee 
any in their Fifh-markets, or fee one of them brought to 
the Ambaflador's Table by the Proveditore for curiof ty : 
though otherwiie it is, an excellently well tafted fiih, 
efpecially when fouled. I allow, that they will fwim ve. 
ry fwiftly, as do the Porpifces ; and that they will fol- 
low a Ship for feveral Leagues together : but then they 
fwim 
