THE ANGEL, 
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Section VII. 
"The Angel*. 
J his fifli poffeffes the character of extreme voracity, 
c °mmon to the fliarks and rays, two genera which nature 
[ een)s to have intended this animal Ihould, in fome mea- 
fure * connea together : In its external figure, it partakes 
the nature of both, while it differs from each in the 
^nation of the mouth ; that organ being placed in the 
£ xtre m ity of the fnout, and not below the headf. 
1 he angel grows frequently to the weight of an huu- 
'hed and fixty pounds : Its body is covered over with a 
frhhy mucus, beneath which lies a rough flein, employ- 
e d formerly by the workmen as a fliagreen It was 
fl °m this circumftance, .that the filh obtained the name 
^ -fi le among the Greeks §,• while tire Romans called it 
Wattna, from the filth with which the body is covered ||. 
^ 6 colour of the back and fides is brownifli, that of the 
thof" Wh ' te ’ " iilC P e< ^ oral fi ns ar e large, and feem, like 
e of the rays, to be a prolongation of the body: It 
lorn thefe wing-like fins that this filh received its 
name ft. 
The 
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f Brit 7 S ^ Uat “ la * L’Ange, ou Angelot de Mer, Belon. 
S P, A t Plinii. Lib. ix. Cap. xa. 
1 ,T ati,, a> Pi* Willough. page 8®. 
* ibidem, 
