OF FISHES IN GENERA!,. 
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Produce fome kind of fenfation. This, mod probably, is 
‘ e ufe of that organ in thefe animals; as, otherwife, 
would be provided with the instruments of a f en fe, 
Which they could not enjoy from want of an opportunity 
°f uf lng them * 3 
. " rile fe nfe of talle in filhes mull be very imperfect, if 
US dellca cy arife from the pliancy and foftnefs of the or- 
gan. The whole mouth of filhes is covered with a hard 
or y luhftance, which mult deprive them of almoft all 
power of diftinguifhing different fubftances by the pa. 
f e 1 1 heir voracit y, accordingly, is fo indifcriminate, that 
here is hardly any kind of food which they will not 
bail : 1 hC ' V deV ° lU " tlle hlherman’s plummet inllead of 
i filLe^, except the cetaceous, are deprived, not only 
of externa ears but alfo of the auditory nerves and canal. 
„ " Cnl f OI heann S> therefore, it is probable, that they 
are a together deflitutef . As they are incapable of uttering 
founds, they could feldom have an opportunity of hear! 
mg, even though Nature had endowed them with that 
Povei. Aaey have no voice to communicate with each 
oner and, confequently, have no need of that organ by 
"nous 61 ?'■ T '" “ d car.ilu- 
iT °' ,Cd ° f natures for the 
r rf 1 b “'' in «■» f«r« muff, 
. . ' ” an " rfs of the organ, be very imperfea, 
nerri] a b ’ determined by thefe reafons, feem, in ge- 
tlie faculty^ th? ‘- aU thC fpl " 0US flflles are ddlitata of * 
smined " waring. Linnaeus who has probably ex- 
accur aC v a Zr ter numbcrof ^jefts, and with more 
•‘■n any other philofophety confeffes, that he 
