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their Eyes are not directed upwards, but fide- ways. The 
Fifh is accurately defcribed by the fame Author. Saving, 
that he hath omitted the arching or bowing of his Body 
with the Head and Tail upwards : unlefs both the ftiape 
of the fifh here be forced , and his own figure thereof 
falfe. 
This Fifh, when alive, hath a {lender Membranous firing, 
which he projects and draws in, at pleafurc, as a Serpent 
doth his Tongue. With this he duckoys little fifties, and 
then preys upon them. For plunging himfelf in Mud (Ron- 
'deletius faith,he hath feen him) and then lifting up his head 
a little, he cafts out the laid firing 3 which the little fifties 
taking for a Worm, and niblmg at it, he immediately 
plucks them both in together. 
The SQUAR-FISH. Pifcis quadravgularis. 1 think it 
is not defcribed or figur d by any. There are two fquare 
fifties defcribed by Wormius, the former of which he fup- 
pofeth to be made fo, not bred. But neither is this, as 
that is, fpiked behind $ nor as the other , horned before, 
befides other differences: Twas fent from the Raft- 
Indies. 
Tis about fifteen inches long, four high, in the middle 
three and * over. His Forehead fquare, by the eminency 
of the Eye-brows, a little hollow 3 two inches and ? over. 
• 1 His Eyes near an inch. His Nofe blunt, not very fleep, an 
inch and \ long. Two fmall holes in the place of Noftrils. 
His Mouth exceeding little, ? an inch over. His Teeth alfo 
very fmall. 
The Gills are ftrait , an inch and * long. His back a 
little Convex 5 towards his Tail , and on his fides blunt 
angled. So alfo his Belly , but plain or flat 3 and consi- 
derably riling up towards his Tail. He hath five Fins. The 
Gill-Fins are two inches in length, and two in breadth. 
They ftand a little obliquely. Like thefe, a little before 
the Tail, one above, another under. The Tail-Fin three 
inches long, and three and ? high. 
Some part of both the Chaps and of the Tail are cover d 
only with a Skin. The reft of the fifh with a kind of Cruft : 
yet not altogether fo hard as in the Cruftaceous kind. This 
Cruft is all over adorned with innumerable little round 
knobs reduced, for the moil part, into hexagonal figures* 
fubdivided into equilateral Triangles. Wormim 
