THE DOP.EEU 
Sag 
tranfparent varnifh of fcarlet, burnifhed over with gold, 
and befpangled with oblong filver fpots of different fizes- 
The breaft confifted of a hard bone, refembling in fliape 
the keel of a (hip ; and the flefb had the tafle and appear- 
ance of beef *. 
The opah has only been four or five times caught on 
the Britijh (bores ; and as no mention is made of it by 
Lin rut us or Willoughby , is probably every where a rare 
fiih. The fins, as well as the body, are of fine fcarlet ; 
and from the high encomiums lavifhed by thofe who 
have feen it, on its brilliant colours, we are led to fup- 
pofe that it is one of the moll beautiful of the tenants of 
the deep, and to regret its fcarcity f. 
* Brit. Zoology. -j- Vide Sibbald. Hift. Scot. Tab. 6. 
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