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And to ftrcngthen this Conjedure, we may draw 
another Confideration from the Manner of their 
Feeding j for thefe are Creatures of no fwift Motion, 
and crawl on Bottoms of fhoal Places, watching and 
alluring their Prey; now their Young cannot be 
fuppofed to have Power or Sagacity enough for this 
Work, till they are grown large and Prong, and have 
thefe Twigs in Pcrfedion ,* therefore they mud of 
Necefiity be protected by the Parent, till they arc 
able to provide for themfelves ; which probably may 
be when they grow too large to enter into thefe 
Marfupia. 
There are feven fmall finny Webs like little in- 
dented Leaves, on each Side the under Jaw, and 
others of the fame kind all round the Sides to the 
Tail. 
He has a dorfal Fin near the Tail upon the Spine, 
and a ventral flefhy Fin nearer the Tail than the 
former. 
The five-fingcr’d Webs under the Thorax are 
rough and flefhy, {hewing their Bufinefs is to affift 
in flowly crawling from Place to Place ; and there 
appears the Veftige of the Spine from the Place of 
the Vent to the Tail on the mod pofterior Part of 
the Belly. 
Thefe are what I thought worthy your Notice, 
and hope they will have produced the Effect I de- 
figned ; which was no more than to entertain you, 
by illuftrating any lingular Piece of natural Hiftory, 
that may happen to fall in my Way; efpecially in 
fuch Subjeds as do not often occur. 
As to the Sex of the Fifh, I could be no Judge of 
it, nor of any internal Part, as the Vifcera had been 
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