P A R t I. Of Fijher. 1 11 
Wormlus 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 5 for fo 
may the Cruft of a Lobfter. 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. Pifcis 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 3 from whence his Name. His Eyes great, fc . an 
inch and ? long 5 and ftand high. His Forehead almoft 
fquare, and by the eminency of the Eye-brows a little hol- 
low ; an inch and * broad. Half an inch before the Eyes 
two little holes like Noftrils. His Nofe defcendmg almoft 
perpendicularly, three inches deep, and blunt-ended. His 
Mouth not above an inch over. The Teethe of an inch 
long , and fharp : 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 
fharp Spike ? of an inch long, ftanding near, and poin ting 
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, botli 
two inches long , an inch and ? broad. The Tail-Fin 
three inches long, and two and ? high. Excepting his 
Chaps and Tail, which are naked, he is covered all over 
with the like Cruft, as the former. On the upper part of 
the Tail, alfo grows a diftincl: Cruft, of an Oval figure. 
The Chaps and Tail of this Fifh, and the reft of the kind, 
are both left naked, for the more eafie and convenient 
motion 
