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95. Cyprinus Dentex Y . 
The Nile. The Arabs call it Kalb El Bar, i. e. 
Sea Dog. 
96. Mormyrus anguilioides z . 
The Nile. The Arabs call it Cafchive. 
97 - Tetraodon (Fahaka) corpore teretuifculo, abdo- 
mine inflato utrinque aculeato, infra anum glabro. 
The Nile, about Cairo, where it hath been 
found but of late, and never known in former times, 
Recording to the inhabitants. It came, perhaps, 
^om the Mediterranean. The Arabs call it Fa- 
haka, and fay that it grows to a prodigious fize. 
When it is juft caught, it pricks the fkin, if it is 
? a ken in the bare hands, and produces fmall puftules, 
in the fame manner as nettles. This I have been 
^ld by fifhermen ; who likewife informed me, that 
l he flelh is a hidden poifon. I have never had an 
°Pportunity of trying it. 
98. Syngnathus marinus. 
J Lin. Syft. Nat. P. 325. N. 25. z P. 327. N. 2. 
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