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The Mango-Fish. 
T H E natural Bignefs of the Fifh is truly fhewn by the Figure. It is remark¬ 
able for having four Noftrils, two on each Side of its Nofe : It is a pretty thick 
Fifh from Side to Side, in Proportion to its Depth from Back to Belly. 
It is all over of an Orange, or Golden-Colour, refembling in that Particular what 
is called the Gold-Fifh, brought to us of late Years alive from China . It is of a very 
handfome Make, full bodied forwards, and tapering off towards the Tail: From the 
under Sides of the Gills on each Side, fhoot forth feven fliff Subfiances like Hairs, the 
uppermoft of which is Sixteen Inches long, from which they gradually fhorten to 
two Inches, which is the Length of the fhorteft : Above thefe, on each Side, juft at 
the Angle of the Gills, it has a pretty long fharp Fin : It hath alfo another Pair of 
Fins on the Beginning of the Belly juft below the Gills. On the Belly beyond the 
Vent it hath a Single Fin ; on the Back it hath two flngle Fins, the one near the 
Head in the thick Part of the Fifh, the other farther back, where it grows Smaller. 
See their Shapes in the Figure. The Tail is more forked than is common in other 
Fifties. Irhath a firm hard Scaling all over the Body, whole Size and Shape are 
expreffed by the Figure. A fine oblique Line pafifes over its Scales on each Side from 
Head to Tail. The Fins and Tail are of a darker Yellowifh, or Orange-Colour, than 
the Reft of the Body. 
This Fifh was brought from Bengal with other Rarities to Dr. Mead , who obliged me with 
a Sight of it. 1 believe it is call’d a Mango-m/h, becaufe it is of the Colour that Fruit bears 
when ripe ; for on my examining Dampier's Voyage round the World, P.391, when he is 
Speaking of the Indian Fruits, he fays, the Mango is of a yellowifh Colour when ripe. Whe¬ 
ther this be a Salt or Frefh- Water-Fifh, I cannot determine, tho’ I judge it to be the latter. 
Not having ftudied the Claffing of Fifties, I leave it to the Knowing that Way to determine for 
them Selves. I take it to be absolutely a Nondefcript. 
The Great Brown Locus t. 
O N the fourth Day of Augufi , 1748, vaft Numbers'of the great brownifh Spotted Locufts 
fettled in all Parts of the City ol London , and in mod Parts of the Kingdom of England j 
which much Surprized the Inhabitants, as no luch Event was remembered to have ha pened 
before by the Generality of the People. The largeft of them little exceeded the Figures here 
reprefented, which were diredtly engraved on the Plate from the Life, of their natural Bignefs. 
They have Horns about an Inch long ; their Shape is very much like our common little Grafs- 
hopper ; the Head and Horns are of a brownifh Colour, Blue about the Mouth, and the Infide 
of the greater Legs •, the Shield that covers the Back is Greenifh : The upper Side of the Ab¬ 
domen is Brown Spotted with Black •, the under Side of the Body is Purple ; the fix Legs are 
Brownifh, having dufky Spots, and a Tindture of Green; the upper Wings are Brown, with 
Small dufky Spots, and a larger Spot at their Tips ; the under Wings are more tranfparent, 
and of a light Brown tindfur’d with Green, and a Cloud or dark Spot at their Tips. Sir Hans 
Sloane calls it Locufta maxima cinereo purpurea Maculis brunis , Hijt. Nat. Jamaica , Vol. II. P. 29. 
Dampier in his Voyage round the World, fays, they are eaten in Countries where they abound. 
Dr. hhaw has largely treated of this Species in his Account of Barbary , &c. This is the de- 
ftroying Locuft that appears in Clouds, and fpreads itfeif at Times, to the Terror of the Inha¬ 
bitants of the warmer Climates of Europe , AJia and Africa . See a Knot of its Fggs expreffed 
in the Plate, a^ they were taken out of Earth laid at the Bottom of a Glafs wherein home 
of thefe Locufts were kept. :The 
