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FLYING FISH. 
We cannot, however, believe with him, that this is 
strictly the case ; since the great Author of nature 
has weighed the happiness of his creatures in a 
balance so nicely regulated, that neither of the scales 
appears to preponderate. 
The shape, excepting the head, is not unlike 
that of a herring : it has large and silvery scales, and 
the length of the animal is from twelve to fifteen 
inches. The pectoral fins, as we have already no- 
ticed, are very long ; the tail is forked. 
