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XXX. An Account of a remarkable Fifh, 
taken in King- Road, near Briftol : In a 
Letter from Mr. James Fergufon, to 
Thomas Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S. 
Reverend Sir, Bdllol, May 5 th .763. 
Read June 2 d, T Herewith take the liberty of fending 
*763* you a drawing of a very uncommon 
kind of fifh [Tab. XIII.] which was lately caught 
in King -Road, a few miles from this city ; and is 
now fhewn at the Hot- Wells. It fought violently 
a^ainfi: the fiffier-man’s boat, after they got it in then- 
net, and was killed with very great difficulty. No 
body here can tell what fiffi it is, only fome fay it is 
a Sea Lion j but, to the beft of my remembrance, 
it anfwers not to the defeription or figure of the 
Sea Lion, that is given in Lord Anion’s voyage. I 
took the drawing on the fpot, and do wifh I had had 
my Indian Ink and Pencils, by which it might have 
been much better {haded j but I hope you’ll excule 
the rough nefs of the draught, as it is the fir ft I evei 
made with a pen. 
The length of the fiffi is four feet nine inches, and 
the thicknefa in proportion as in the figure. The 
mouth is a foot in width, and of a fquariffi form : 
it has three rows of ffiarpfmall teeth, very irregularly 
let, and at fome diltance from each other: it has no 
tongue, nor narrow gullet, but is all the way down, 
as far as one can fee, like a great hollow tube : in the 
back of the mouth within, there are two openings 
