OF FISHES IN GENERAL. 
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cartilaginous, and fpmous. * ; which, as far as it goes, 
feems impoflible to be altered for the better +. Ronde- 
letius, the firft naturalift, who, after the revival of learn- 
ing, turned his attention to this fubjeft, attempted to lay 
afide the Arijlotelian divifion, and to fuftitute, in its 
room, another, founded upon the habitation of fifties, or 
thcfe places where they refido. He, accordingly, elafied 
them into the fi files of the fea, rivers and lakes t. Since, 
however, many fifties refide indifcriminately in all thefe 
fituations, this method was abandoned by Willoughby 
and Ray, who again refumed the arrangement of Arijlotle ; 
and, the celebrated Linnecus has added to it fome tarther 
fubdivifions, which render it lliil more ufeful. 
Ihe cetaceous fifties have, in the later editions of his 
works, been cl a ft id among the quadrudeds ; the car- 
tilaginous have been referred to the amphibious tribes, 
among which they conftitute a particular order § ; while 
th efpinoui or hony, are alone allowed to retain the name 
cf JiJJses. 
As we have already hinted, that we are to pafs by, or 
but flightly mention, fome fpecies enumerated by that 
naturalift, whole manners are not interefting, or but im- 
pel feftly known; fo, on the other hand, we {ball re- 
hore to their natural ftation among the finny tribes, 
the cetaceous and cartilaginous fifties, which he has ba- 
nifhed irom that part of the animal kingdom. 
the grand claflical characters, which nature has im- 
printed on the cetaceous order, will, in a philofophical 
view. 
Hift. Anim^ 
fuppo Com P r ehends the •whale hind ; the fecond , thofe whofe fifh is 
PP e by artdages ; and the third, thofe whofe mufcles are iupported 
uyfpirc or bon . 
7 y matter. 
i Marini, muviatil^ and Lacujlres. 
A 'phibia Nantia , Lin . Syft. Nat. Ed. I 
