o6 Of Fifhes. Part I. 
and great pains is taken to affign the Caufe 5 and to prove, 
That though the Moon be made of a Green Cbeefe, yet is 
not the only Neft of Maggots, Rondeletius alone , in 
afcribing it to piis eafily altering the pofition of the Helm, 
and fo the motion of the Ship , coming near to good 
fenfe : efpecially if he had proved, That the Name of the 
Fifh, and the Story, were not Things much older than the 
Helm of a Ship. 
Tis plain, that the Tradition had a very early beginning, 
when little light Boats were the Ships which people us'd. 
To the fide whereof, this Fifh fattening her felf, might eafily 
make it fwag, as the leaft preponderance on either fide will 
do, and fo retard its Courfe. And the Story once begot 
upon a Boat , might ftill , like the Fifh it felf, ftick to 
it, though turn'd to a Ship. Aligning as great a power to 
this Neptune in the Sea, as the Poets have done to Apollo the 
God of Life in the Heavens $ who yet appears by the beft 
accounts of him put together, to have been at hrft no better 
than a Crafty Mountebank, 
The TOBACCOPIPE-FISH. By the People of Brafek, 
and by Marggravius who defcribes it, called Petimbuaba. 
He hath only omitted the Line, which, like a very fmall 
Chain, runs along both fides, as in the Sea-Scorpion, from 
Head to Tail : Both the Body and Snout are long and flen- 
der, from whence its Name. Tis alfo pidhir d, and in fome 
fort defcribed by Pifo. 
The PRICKLED TURBUT. Rhombus aculeatus. So 
called from his figure and the prickles on his Back or brown 
fide. Defcribed by Rondeletius. The two firings that 
hang at the nether Chap, are here wanting. He is faid, 
having hid himfelf in Mud, with thefe, to Prey upon little 
Fifh,which feeing them rigle,make at them,fuppofing them 
to be Weeds. 
The little GLOB-FISH. Orbh minor. So called from his 
Orbicular figure. Defcribed in moft Mufaums. Moft 
curioufly figur'd in that of Calceolarius. He is armed with 
long, round, hard,- and ttiarp Spikes or Needles all round 
about, almoft like thofe of a Hedg-Hog 3 and is a fort of 
Porcupine-Fijh. 
'Tis probable, That the Fifh fwims with thefe Needles 
allclolHy couched down round about, for that otherwife 
they 
