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NATURAL HISTORY 
SEA HORSE. 
The Sea Horse, or Pipe Fish, has a body 
of the pipe shape ; in the thickest part it is 
not larger than a swan’s quill, while it is 
above sixteen inches long. Its general colour 
is an olive brown, marked with numbers of 
bluish lines, pointing from the back to the 
belly. It is viviparous; for, on crushing 
one that was just taken, hundreds of very 
minute young ones were observed to crawl 
about. Specimens of the Sea Horse are 
often seen in museums and cabinets. Like 
other species of pipe fish, when alive, it is 
straight; but it shrivels up when dead, and 
somewhat resembles the letter S in shape. 
Its head is something like that of a horse. 
They arc chiefly found in the Mediterranean 
and Indian Seus. 
