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by no rays: the back fin has nine rays; the pedoral fins ftand very near the mouth of 
the fifh, and have each twenty rays: the pinna ani has feven or eight rays, and the 
tail has ten : the kidnies and the urinary bladder in this fpecies are remarkably large. 
It is frequent about our own coafts, and in moll of the Northern Seas, but 
no where fo very plentiful as in the Baltic; it's fiefh is very well tailed. Turney 
Gefner, Aldrovand, Jonfton, Charleton, Willughby, and Ray, all call it Lumpus 
Anglorum ; Schelbammer, Lumpus Anglorum pifcis; Gefner, Orbis Britannici five 
oceani fpecies; and Schoneveldt, Lepus marinus noflras, orbis fpecies. The Swedes 
call it Syurigg-filh; the Dutch, Snotolff; the Scots, the Cock-paddle ; and we, the 
Lamp-fill), or Sea-owl. 
L O P FI I U S. 
r ip H E figure of the Lophius is monftrous and irregular, unlike that of all other 
filhes: the head is equal to all the reft of the body in fize; the head and body 
are both of a deprelfed form : there are a number of fiefhy pinnules or appendages 
furrounding the whole body of the fifh. 
Lophius ore cirrofo. 3 £l)t iM'llUtllJCj 
The Lophius , with a bearded mouth . 01 
This is one of the ftrangeft fifh in the world ; it’s figure and characters are indeed 
fo lingular, that one of them accidentally caught on our coafts, and brought to Lon¬ 
don, proved, for many years, a livelihood to the perfon who fingly Ihewed it: it 
grows to five or fix feet in length, and it’s head, in this cafe, is near two feet in dia¬ 
meter : the head is of a rounded but deprelfed figure, and is more than equal to the 
whole body in fize; the opening of the mouth is enormoully wide, and the apparatus 
of teeth very terrible : there are feveral feries of them in each jaw, and in the fauces 
alfo, and at the root of the tongue : they are oblong, {lender, and lharp, and all turn 
inwards, fo that it is impoffible for any thing, once feized on, to make it’s efcape : 
the lower jaw is longer than the upper, and the mouth feems incapable of doling per- 
fedly. The difproportion of the head to the body gives the whole fifh fomewhat 
of the figure of the tadpole : the eyes are large ; their iris is grey, and the pupil round 
and blackifh : there are no confpicuous noftrils, but feveral little protuberances in the 
place where they might be expeded : there are many elegant lines difpofed in mean¬ 
ders on the head, and continued to the lateral line; the eyes are placed not in the 
iides of the head, but on it’s top, yet at a confiderable aiftance from one another; and 
it is lingular that there runs a tranfverfe line of white, or of the colour of the iris, 
through the pupil: near the extremity of the roftrum there ftand two bodies of an ob¬ 
long, flender form, refembling pieces of whale-bone, and on the fummit of each is a 
whitilh, fiefhy protuberance; thefe it vibrates about at pleafure, and there are three other 
fhorter, of the fame form and ftrudure, on the back: the eyes have feveral fpines 
about them, and there are others toward the verge of the jaw, and on different parts 
of the head befide : the body of the filh is very inconfiderable, in proportion to it’s 
head ; it is oblong, fmall, and deprelfed ; the back is flatted, and of a dulky greyilh- 
colour, with fome variegations: there is but one back fin; this (lands near the tail, 
and has ten rays: the tail is large, and is not forked at the end ; the pedoral fins ftand 
at the ftdes of the fifh, aqd have each twenty rays: the pinna ani Hands over-again ft 
the back fin, and has nine rays, but the moll lingular fins are the ventral ones; they 
Hand very high, and are placed contiguous to each other; they have each five rays, 
and are divided into fo many parts very deep toward the bafe, and, being thick, 
fiefhy, and of a pale reddilh-colour, they have greatly the appearance of hands with 
their fingers: the appendages, furrounding the body of the filh, are of the nature of 
thefe ventral fins, only very fmall: the apertures of the gills are very large ; they are 
under the roots of the pedoral fins, and the gills are three on each fide : the inteftines 
are very long, and have many circumvolutions; there are two appendages to the py¬ 
lorus ; the urinary bladder is very large. It is a very lluggilh fifh, and ufually lies fiat 
on the bottom, in which pofture it’s eyes are turned full upward, and diftjnguifh 
every thing above it. 
