Of Fijhes. Part! 
intent of their ftruclrure is lefs obfcure $ the Nervous part 
ferving to draw it too and fro $ the Cartilage, as the fpring 
in a Pendulum Watch, to ftint the motion and make it more 
fteady. And being flexible, it does the fame as a joynted 
Series of many little Bones. 
The little SEA-UNICORNE. Monoceros minor. It was 
fent from Brafile, I find it not defcribed nor pictur'd in 
any Author. Nor is it certain whether it be Ovipa- 
rous. Yet I have ventur d to place, and (hall defcribe it 
here. 
Tis 3 a yard long, almoft * high, with its fides very much 
compreffed, being not above two inches and a f over. 
High-Bac'd, like a Perch. And alfo ( which is unufual ) 
bow-Belli'd. His Head hath fome refemblance to that of 
a Baboone $ from the top to the bottom four inches and 
His Mouth, which ftands below, not much above an inch 
over. His Teeth, in both Chaps, the thicknefs of a midling 
Needle, the eight of an inch long. His Gills fubtended 
to his Eyes and Mouth l;ke the fegment of a Circle. His 
Eyes ftand near the top of his Head $ and are an inch 
over. 
From the top is prolonged a fmooth (now) blackifh, 
round, taper d, ftrait Horn, couched a little down below 
the level, two inches round about the Root, and three 
inches long. It feemeth not to have any Bone within it $ 
nor is it inferted into any, as in the Vnicorne of the Cetace- 
ous kind before defcribed; but is the Skin itfelf prolonged 
and hardened ( as the Cuticula turns to Comes ) into a kind 
of horn. 
The Fins are feven. The Gill-Fins two inches long, and 
one broad. The Back-Fin is extended from Head to Tail, 
above an inch and 3 high. The Bread-Fins I of an inch 
before the Anus, near two inches long. The Belly-Fin, 
like that of the Back,and extended from the Anus to the end 
of the Tail. That at the end of the Tail triangular ; two 
inches and * long, three high. The Anus, if you meafure 
by a perpendicular from the Gills, opens, oddly, not above 
an inch and * behind them. He is cover'd with a ( now ) 
blackiih, thick and tough Skin, and when you draw your 
hand forward, alfo rough. 
The SHIPHALTER. Echeneis. Remora. Jobnftonhaxh 
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