Part I 
Of Fijbes. 
Belly, & e contra. The ufe whereof feems to be, To ena- 
ble him to make a more diredt and fudden defcent 5 that 
fo when any Ravenous Fifh makes full fpeed at him, he 
may in an inftant ftrike himfelf under his way, and fo efcape 
him. It may alfo be noted, That being a tall Filh, and 
with his fides much comprefled, he hath a long Fin upon 
his Back, and another anfwering to it on his Belly : by which 
he is the better kept upright , or from fwaging on his 
fides. 
Another MOON-FISH of the fame Species, but fome- 
whatlefTer. Neither of thefe is above ? a yard long. But 
that which Salvian defcribes,was above an hundred pounds 
weight. They are taken, as Mr. Ray faith, about St. Ives 
and Penfans in Cornwall. 
CHAP. II. 
OF 0V1TEK0VS FISHES, particularly 
fuchasare NOT-SCALED. 
HTHe HEAD of the RIVER-WHALE Caput SilurL 
Johnfton gives the figure of this Fifh, but without a 
Pefcription. That of Rondeletius is not full. This Head 
is * a foot long, as broad, and half as high. The Snout flat. 
Both the Chaps before of a Semilunar figure, Armed with 
an innumerable company of prickly Teeth, (landing like 
thofe in a Card wherewith Women Comb WoolL The 
nether Chap (lands out above an inch before the upper. 
The Eyes round, and for fuch a Head, very fmall, fcarce the 
third of an inch over. Diftant three inches and I An 
inch above the corners of his Mouth, he hath two firings, 
fmooth and round, here ( for they are broken ) 4 a foot 
long, about the thicknefs of an Earth-Worm, taper d and 
bended backward 3 outwardly nervous, inwardly Cartilaf 
ginous or Grifly. His Gills defcending almoft from the 
top of his Head, meet under his Throat. 
What may be the ufe of thefe firings is uncertain, and 
to be collected only from obferving their communication 
with other parts, and the manners of the Fifh. But the 
intent 
