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The Mango-Fish. 
T H E natural Bignefs of the Fifh is truly (hewn by the Figure. It is remark- 
able for having four Noftriis, two on each Side of its Nofe : It is a pretty thick 
Fifh from Side to Side, in Proportion to its Depth from Back to Belly. 
It is all over of an Orange, or Golden-Colour, refembling in that Particular what 
is called the Gold-Fifh, brought to us of late Years alive from China, It is of a very 
handfome Make, full bodied forwards, and tapering off towards the Tail : From the 
under Sides of the Gills on each Side, fhoot forth feven ftiff Subftances like flairs, the 
uppermoft of which is fixteen Inches long, from which they gradually fhorten to 
two Inches, which is the Length of the ftiorteft : Above thefe, on each Side, juft at 
the Angle of the Gills, it has a pretty long fharp Fin : It hath alfo another Pair of 
Fins on the Beginning of the Belly juft below the Gills. On the Belly beyond the 
Vent it hath a fingle Fin j on the Back it hath two Angle Fins, the one near the 
Head in the thick Part of the Fifh, the other farther back, where it grows fmaller* 
See their Shapes in the Figure. The Tail is more forked than is common in other 
Fifties. It hath a firm hard Scaling all over the Body, whofe Size and Shape are 
exprefted by the Figure. A fine oblique Line paffes over its Scales on each Side from 
Head to Tail. The Fins and Tail are of a darker Yellowifh, or Orange-Colour, than 
the Reft of the Body, 
This Fifh was brought from Bengal with other Rarities to Dr. Mead , who obliged me with 
a Sight of it. I believe it is call’d a Mango -Fifh, becaufe it is of the Colour that Fruit bears 
when ripe \ for on my examining Dampier 9 s Voyage round the World, P. 391, when he is 
fpeaking of the Indian Fruits, he fays, the Mango is of a yellowifh Colour when ripe. Whe- 
ther this be a Salt or Frefh- Wat^r-Fifh, I cannot determine, tho* I judge it to be the latter. 
Not having ftudied the Gaffing of Fifties, I leave it to the Knowing that Way to determine for 
themlelves. I take it to be abfolutely a Nondefcript. 
The Great Brown Locust. 
O N the fourth Day of Auguft , 1 748, vaft Numbers of the great brownift fpotted Locufts 
fettled in all Parts of the City of London , and in moft Parts of the Kingdom of England •» 
which much furprized the Inhabitants, as no fuch Event was remembered to have happened 
before by the Generality of the People. The largeft of them little exceeded the Figures here 
reprefented, which were direftly engraved on the Plate from the Life, of their natural Bignefs. 
They have Horns about an Inch long * their Shape is very much like our common little Grafs- 
hopper v the Head and Horns are of a brownift Colour, Blue about the Mouth, and the Infide 
of the greater Legs •, the Shield that covers the Back is Greenift : The upper Side of the Ab- 
domen is Brown fpotted with Black •, the under Side of the Body is Purple ; the fix Legs are 
Brownift, having dufky Spots, and a Tinfture of Green ; the upper Wings are Brown, with 
fmall dufky Spots, and a larger Spot at their Tips •, the under Wings are more tranfparent, 
and of a light Brown tinftur’d with Green, and a Cloud or dark Spot at their Tips, Sir Harts 
Sloane calls it Locufta maxima cinereo purpurea Maculis brunis , Hi ft. Nat , Jamaica , Vol. II. P. 29. 
Dampier in his Voyage round the World, fays, they are eaten in Countries where they abound. 
Dr. Shaw has largely treated of this Species in his Account of Barbary , &c. This is the de- 
ftroying Loculi that appears in Clouds, and fpreads itfelf at Times, to the 1 error of the Inha- 
bitants of the warmer Climates of Europe , Afm and Africa . See a Knot of its Eggs exprefled 
in the Plate, as they were taken out of Earth laid at the Bottom of a Glafs wherein fome 
of thefe Locufts were kept. The 
