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SfINOUS FISHES, 
CHAPTER VL 
Order III . — Spinous Fifes . 
Section I. 
General Characters of this Order . 
w E are now come to that order of the finny tribe, t* 
which the later naturalilts have exclufively appropriated 
the name of fiih : According to them, the cetaceous kind 5 
are beafts, that have taken up their abode in the ocean » 
and the cartilaginous, an amphibious band that are bn c 
half denizens of that clement ; the fpinous fifties being 
alone entitled to that appellation *. After detailing t ' ,C 
hiftory of the two firfl orders, we have feen that thet e 
are particularities in their conformation, which, in a p* 1 *' 
lofophical view, perhaps juftify the arrangement of th c|c 
naturalifts, to whom fcience is much indebted. 
therefore, we have availed ourfelves of their method 0 
placing the different genera, our veneration for the id e!lS 
and the language univerfally eftabliflied among men, 
ele' 
tn°° 
induced us to rank all the inhabitants of the fame 
ment in one clafs, and to diftinguilh them by a cotnr 
name. 
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