Part I 
Of Fijhes. 
1 i 1 
Wormius calls this Cruft a Leathery Skin : but not rightly.; 
as any one that compares it with the true Skin upon his 
Chaps and Tail, whereof he takes no notice, may eafily 
judge. That it may be bent, proves it not a Skin ; for fo 
may the Cruft of a Lohfter. To which this feemeth to 
ftand in the next degree, as that doth to a fhell. Or to 
fpeak properly, it feems neither a Skin, nor a Cruft alone, 
but a Medly of both together, or a Cruft upon a Skin : 
Nature having here,as in many other examples,united two 
extreams by a third Thing in the middle. 
Another SQUARE FISH ftained with black Spots. Given 
by Mr. John Short. 
The CONEY-FISH. Pifck Triangularis. Defcribed 
by Marggravius. Wormius alfo fuppofeth his firft Square- 
Fijh to be the fame. But neither of them are particular 
enough. 
Tis above * a yard long, above £ a foot high, the Belly 
flat, and almoft \ a foot over. From whence his fides rife 
up into a (harp Angle. His Head fomewhat like that of 
a Coney 5 from whence his Name. His Eyes great, fc. an 
inch and ; long 3 and ftand high. His Forehead almoft 
fquarc, and by the eminency of the Eye-brows a little hol- 
low 3 an inch and * broad. Half an inch before the Eyes 
two little holes like Noftrils. His Nofe defcending almoft 
perpendicularly, three inches deep, and blunt-ended. His 
Mouth not above an inch over. The Teeth i of an inch 
long , and lharp : ten in the lower Chap , in the upper 
twelve. His Back arched between the Head and Tail, and, 
as is faid,very fharp. On each fide his Belly he hath a ftrong 
lhar p Spike * of an inch long, ftanding near, and pointing 
toward his Tail. 
His Gills are ftrait, above an inch long, and parallel to 
his Nofe. The Fins five. The Gill-Fins here broken off. 
A little before his Tail, one above, another below, both 
two inches long , an inch and ^ broad. The Tail-Fin 
three inches long, and two and s high. Excepting his 
Chaps and Tail, which are naked, he is covered all over 
with the like Cruft 3 as the former. On the upper part of 
the Tail, alfo grows a diftinct Cruft, of an Oval figure. 
The Chaps and Tail of this Fifh, and the reft of the land, 
are both left naked, for the more eafie and convenient 
motion 
