DON 
fpknetic patients j and we are told that the liver, 
■when roafted, and uled with aliments, perfeflly 
cures tertian and quartan fevers, and alio that fpe- 
cies of nofturnal fever known by the name of ty- 
phus. Pliny enumerates the afhes of the Dolphin 
among the fpecifics for curing the ring-worm and 
leprofiesj and, according to the fame author, the 
fat, when melted and drank with wine, proves ef- 
feflual in the removal of dropfies. 
The Dolphin is faid to go ten months with 
young; and, like the whale, feldom to bring forth 
more than one at a time, and that in the middle of 
fummer. It lives a great number of years, though 
fome fay not more than twenty-five or thirty. This 
fpecies of Dolphin, however, fhould not be con- 
founded with that to which failors give the fame 
name; the latter being the^icoryplisna hippuris of 
Linnasus, and the dorado of the Portuguefe de- 
fcribed by Willughby. 
Dolphin of the Moderns. This fifli, the 
hippuris of fome authors, and the dorado of others, 
has a flat and roundifh fnout, and the body tapers 
from the head to the tail ; but it's principal beauty 
confifts in it's colours, which are indeed very bril- 
liant. The back is wholly enamelled with blueifh 
green fpots, which fhine like jewels in a dark 
ground; the tail and fins are of a gold-colour ; and 
nothing can exhibit a more beautiful appearance 
than this fifh when either viewed in it's native ele- 
ment, or before it is quite dead. It grows to the 
length of five or fix feet, and is nearly as thick as the 
falmon . A remarkable fin runs from the head, along 
the back, to the root of the tail, which in the mid- 
dle is feven inches broad, and confifts of a kind of 
coriaceous mem.brane with foft fpines; oppofite to 
which there is another fin, not more than one inch 
broad, and extending from the vent to the tail. The 
tail, which is upwards of two feet and a half long, 
is divided into two large horns ; and the fcales are 
To very minute as to be hardly perceptible. This 
fifh fwims with fuch amazing velocity, as frequently 
to keep pace with a fwift-failing fhip for a confide- 
rable fpace of time. See Coryph^na, and Hip- 
puris. 
DON AX. A genus of bivalve fhells, the mar- 
ginal front of which is much blunted; and the in- 
clofed animal is a tethys. There are only two fpe- 
cies found on the Britifli coafts. 
DoNAX, Yellow. The outfide of this fhell is 
of a gloffy whitifli colour tinged with a dirty yel- 
low, and marked longitudinally with numerous 
elegant minute ftrias; and tlie infide is purple. 
This fpecies is upwards of one inch in breadth. 
DoNAX, Purple. This fliell is fomewhat 
broader than the preceding, of a uniform fhape, 
extremely blunt at one end, ftriated like the for- 
mer, and ferrated at the edges. It is internally of 
a purplifh colour, and tinged with the fame hue 
externally. 
DONGON. The Philippine name for a pecu- 
liar fpecies of crane. The body, which is large, 
refembles that of the goofe; the neck is rather 
fhort; and the beak, which is very long and broad, 
is of a greyifli colour. There is alfo another re- 
markable fpecies of crane peculiar to the Philippine 
iflands, called by the natives tipul or tihol; which 
is fo very tall, that, when ftanding erect, it is capa- 
ble of overlooking a middle-fized man. 
DONNA. A name given by Zuchelli, and 
fome other authors, to the manati or fea-cow. 
DONZELLINA. The julis: a very beauti- 
ful fiHi cauglit ia the Mediterranean feas, and ap- 
DOR 
proaching to the nature of the turdus or v/rail'^^ 
See JuLis. 
DORADO. A large fea-fifli,- called by the 
Brazilians giiaracapema. There is a fort of crelt 
on the head, adjoining to a large fin which extends 
to the tail ; and there is likewife another fin which 
reaches from the vent to the tail. The ventral fins 
extend almioft to the vent, which is placed in the 
middle of the body; the mouth is of a modefate 
fize; there are fl:iarp teeth in the jaws, palate, and 
tongue; the eyes are large; the fcales are extremely 
fmall; and the colour is a blueifli green. This 
filh gradually decreales in thicknefs from the head; 
and the flefli is fat, fv/eet, and folid, like that of 
the tunny. The Dorado refembles the dolphin 
of the moderns, or hippuris, in fuch a number of 
particulars, that many naturalifts have fuppofed 
them to be one and the iame fifli. 
DOREAS LYBICA. A name given by ^lian 
and fome other naturalifts to the common ante- 
lope. 
DOREE, or JOHN DOREE. A fifh called 
by the generality of naturalifts faber, gallus mari- 
nus, and zeus. The term Doree is borrowed from 
the French; and, wirli refpe£l to the word John, 
prefixed to it by fome writers, it feems to be only 
a corruption of the French word Jaune, Yellow; 
that nation expreffing the colour of the fides of 
this fifli bv the phrafe Jaune Doree; v/hence the ap- 
pellation John Doree; or, among the vulgar, John 
Dory. 
Superftition has made the Doree to rival the 
haddock for the honour of having been the fifh 
out of whofe mouth St. Peter took the tribute-mo- 
ney ; leaving on it's fides thofe inconteftible proofs 
of it's identity, namely, the marks of his finger 
and thumb. But it is difficult, and indeed unne- 
cefTary, to determine on which fide to give a ver- 
di6t; the Doree likewife afiTerting an origin of it's 
fpots of a fimilar nature, but of a much earlier date 
than the former : for St. Chriftopher, if we may cre- 
dit Belonius and Aldrovandus, in wading through 
an arm of the fea, having caught a fifh of this kind 
en pafTant, as an eternal memorial of the fa6t, left 
the imprefTions on it's fides to be tranfmitted to all 
pofterity. 
The form of the Doree is extremely forbidding. 
The body is oval, and greatly comprefTed on the 
fides; the head is large; the fnout projects greatly ; 
the mouth is very wide; the teeth are extremely 
fmall ; and the eyes are large, the irides being yel- 
low. The lateral line is unufuallydiftorted, finking 
at one end, and rifing near the middle of the back; 
and beneath it, on each fide, thereis a black round 
fpot. The firft dorfal fin confifts of ten ftrong 
fpiny rays, with long filam.ents reaching far beyond 
their extremities; and the fecond, which is placed 
near the tail, is compofed of twenty-four foft rays, 
the middlemoft being the longeft. The peftora) 
fins have fourteen rays, and the ventral feven : there 
are alfo two anal fins ; and the tail, which is round 
at the extremity, confifts of fifteen branched rays. 
The weight of this fifli feJdom exceeds twelve 
pounds. It is called the Doree, or gilt-fifli, from 
it's fliining appearance when alive. It's fides are 
of an olive colour, varied with light blue and 
white; and indeed the beauty of it's colouring in 
fome meafure atones for the deformity of it's figure. 
It was long before this fifh attradled the notice 
of Britons, as one not only edible, but even deli- 
cious. The vulgar prejudices which arofe from it's 
deformity deterred our anceftt>r§ from rafting it: 
but 
