Part I. Of FijheL 105 
given an indifferent figure of it. But I meet with no 
tolerable Description any where. 
Tis about * of a yard long. His Body before, three 
inches and ^ over 3 thence tapering to the Tail-end. His 
Mouth two inches and ^ over. His Chaps ending forne- 
what angularly. The nether a little broader, and produced 
forward near an inch more than the upper. His Lips rough 
with a great number of little prickles. His Eyes round, 
« of an inch over, an inch behind his Mouth. 
His Head fquat, adorned with a kind of Oval Coronet? 
fomewhat Concave,five inches and * long,above two broad, 
cut traverfly with three and twenty Incifions or long 
Apertures , making fo many diftinct Membranes , with 
rough edges, joyned altogether with a Ligament running 
through the middle of the Coronet, and perforated on each 
fide the Ligament. 
The Gills wind from an inch and ? behind the Eyes down 
to the Throat. The Fins feven. The Gill-Fins above 
four inches long 5 The Breaft-Fins as long. About a * of 
a yard behind the Coronet a fifth extended on the Back 
above 4 of a yard. A fixth like it on the Belly. The 
Tail-end, like a Spear, a little compreffed. The Tail-Fin 
three inches and ? long. The Anm open about the middle 
of the Fifh. His Skin is ( now ) brown, fmooth, and tough, 
or like tan d Leather. 
Perhaps the fame Fith, which Ligon {a) faith, always C^ ba ^|j ^ 
fwims along with the Shark ■> and frequently racks to fome 
part about his Head. At leaft, it is very probable, that 
this Fifh is able to faften himfelf to any great Fifh, Boat, or 
Ship, with the help of the Coronet or Sucker on his Head 5 
which feems to be moft fitly contrived for that purpofe. 
In fome fort anfwerable to the Tail of a Leech, whereby 
fhe racks her felf faft to the fmootheft Glafs. Or to thofe 
round Leathers, wherewith Boys are us'd to play, called 
Suckers, one of which, not above an inch and '» diametre, 
being well foaked in water, will rack fo faft to a Stone, as 
to pluck one of twelve or fourteen pounds up from the 
ground. 
Of the ftupendious power which this Fifh is fuppofed to 
have, there are many concur in the ftory 3 as that he is able 
to flop a Ship in its career under full Sail : and what not ? 
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