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knobs and hollows, like as in the Ear-Bone , but much 
greater. It is faid by Joh. de Laet to be much com- 
mended againft the Stone. There are two of them in every 
Head. 
The Head of the Manati is like that of an Ox or Cow, 
from whence the Englijh Name 5 his Eyes little 5 his Body 
long, like that of an Otter 3 his two Feet like an Elephants, 
Sometimes he is about thirty five feet or twelve yards long, 
Onom h Zoic an< ^ f° ur t> roa( i- M He feeds not on Fifties, but the Grafs 
out of Hie- on the banks of the Creeks and Bays, (b) Calves and 
Sft N^Orb ^ uc ^^ es h er Young ( as fome other Fifties) with two 
i.a. c.14. 'Duggs. (c) A certain Indian King kept and fed one of 
Difc!n Ph * tnem Bread fix and twenty years in a Lake near his 
CO C ibid. am " Houfe , which grew tame, beyond all that the Antients 
(d) chad. h a y e written of Dolphins : He would fometimes carry ten 
of petr. 1 Mar- people on his Back, with eafe, a crofs the Lake, (d) They 
fyr- breed in Hifpaniola, Jamaica, Brafile, and other places. 
The BALANCE-FISH. Zygana LibeUa. Curioufly 
pidhir d in Salvian. Where alfo fee the Defcription. He 
hath his Name not unaptly from the fhape of his Head, 
very different from that of all other Fifties, being fpread 
out horizontally, like the Beam of a Balance 3 his eyes 
Handing at the two extremes, as the iron Hooks do at the 
end of the Beam. He grows fometimes to the length of 
four or five yards : but this is a young one. They breed 
in the Mediterranian , efpecially , faith Bellonius , near 
Smyrna. 
The HEAD of a great BALANCE-FISH. It is two 
feet 3 over, or from eye to eye. The Head of the leffer 
now mention'd, is five inches over, the Fifh, 20 inches 
long. That therefore to which this great Head belonged, 
was ten foot long. 
The SKULL of the MORSE : fo called by the Mufco- 
uites 3 by the Danes, Rofmarus. He hath four feet, and his 
Body fhapen not much unlike the SEA-CALF. But grow- 
eth fometimes to be bigger than an Ox. In his upper 
Jaw , he hath two remarquakble TUSKS, bended 
a little inward. In this Skull , the exerted part is five 
inches long, and four round about at the Root. His other 
Teeth are undefcrib'd. They are fixteen, eight on each 
Jaw. Not Grinders but Punchers, or fomewhat anfwer- 
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