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SNIG EEL. 
conjectured to be the Anguille platbec of Cuvier. I have never 
seen it but of small size; but the form of its head, as being 
more elevated behind, and short and sloping forward, is so 
different from the others, and the body generally more com- 
pressed, that I feel much disposed to consider it distinct. But 
of its history I know nothing further than that it has been 
obtained from the border of the tide when much ebbed. The 
arrangement of mucous glands in front of the eye in this last 
supposed species is different from that of other Eels. 
