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recover ; but continue to decline till the whole fide is de- 
cayed which was firft affe£ted. Hogs and pigs are fud- 
denly taken with the flaggers, turn round and drop, ne- 
ver to recover. Men are opprefled with a Hopped perfpi- 
ration, lieavinefs at the bread:, fore throats ; but they foon 
get over it, by due care. 
The fea abounds with mullets, and fome of a very 
large fize up to ten pounds weight. Smelts in abundance, 
and as large as fourteen and fifteen inches in length ; I 
have taken fuch with an angling line and rod. Tranfpa- 
rent fifh, fhaped like a pike about the head, but not 
larger than a herring: tliefe tranfparent fifh are fo clear 
when caught, that you may fee through them ; they have 
no red blood, but when cut a flimy water ifliies out, which 
1 fuppofe is their blood. There are three or four fpecies 
of the common loggerhead, or fculpa fifh, common on 
the Englilli coafts. A fmall land-crab, fmall cray-fifh, 
are to be got. Mufcles are plenty, with limpets, and a 
few fmall clams. The mufcles are very large and fine, 
and no way dangerous. In the river on the large illand, 
are fmall fifh like trout, very delicious ; and no other fort 
whatever. 
The amphibious animals are of four kinds, though 
feemingly of the fame genus : the fea-lyon and the feal 
are diftindt ; the clapmatch feal and the fur feal are alfo 
diftindl animals. The fea-lyon and lyonels are bull- 
faced, with long fhaggy hair; the common feal isfmooth; 
the clapmatch is heft pictured in Lord anson's voyage, 
under the name of fea-lyon, in the drawings ; the furr 
feal 
