io6 Of Fifhes. Part I. 
and great pains is taken to aflign the Caufe 3 and to prove, 
That though the Moon be made of a Green Chdefe, yet is 
not the only Neil of Maggots. Rondeletius ilone , in 
afcribing it to Jhis 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 Narlae of the 
Filh, 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 peopleWd. 
To the fide whereof, this Filh fattening her felf, might eaiily 
make it fwag, as the lead preponderance on either fide will 
do, and fo retard its Gourfe. And the Story once begot 
upon a Boat , might mil , like the Fifh it felf, flick to 
it, though turn'd to a Ship. Aligning as great a pow er to 
this Neptune in the Sea, as the Poets have done to Apollo the 
God of Life in the Heavens 3 who yet appears by the beft 
accounts of him put together, to have been at firft no better 
than a Crafty Mowitebank. 
The TOBACCOPIPE-FISH. By the People of Brafile, 
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 pictur 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, withthefe, to Prey upon little 
Fi(h,which feeing them rigle,make at them,fuppofing them 
to be Weeds. 
The little GLOB-FISH. Orbis minor. So called from his 
Orbicular figure. Defcribed in mofl Mufaums. Moft 
curioufly figur'd in that of Calceolarius. He is armed with 
long, round, hard, and fliarp Spikes or Needles all round 
about, almofl like thofe of a Hedg-Hog 3 and is a fort of 
Porcupine-Fijh. 
'Tis probable, That the Filh fwims with thefe Needles 
all clofely couched down round about, for that otherwife 
they 
