no OfFifhes. PartaL 
their Eyes are not directed upwards, but fide-ways. The 
Fifh is accurately defcnbed 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 (hape 
of the Fifh here be forced , and his own figure thereof 
falfe. 
This Fifh, when alive, hath a (lender Membranous fixing, 
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 calls out the faid (faring 5 which the little fifties 
taking for a Worm, and nibling at it, he immediately 
plucks them both in together. 
The SQLJAR-FISH. Pifcis quadrangularh. I think it 
is not defcnbed or figur d by any. There are two fquare 
fifties defcnbed 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 Eaft- 
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 $ two inches and ? over. 
His Eyes near an inch. His Nofe blunt, not very deep, an 
inch and ? long. Two fmall holes 111 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 moft part, into hexagonal figures, 
fubdivided into equilateral Triangles. Wormim 
