Part I. 
Of Fifhes 
one. Armed, on each fide, with feven and twenty Spikes, 
each > an inch long, bended a little backward, and with 
two (harp edges behind,as the Spur of the Vnicome Bird hath 
above. 
His Head very flat, about three inches long 5 behind, 
almoft four inches broad; before, two. His Eyes an inch 
long, as much behind the Snout, two inches diftant. 
Above l an inch behind his Eyes he hath two Spouts,about 
* of an inch wide, by both which (as forne Fifhes by a 
Angle one) he calls out the Water, which in taking the 
Prey, or otherwife, he receives into his mouth. Beneath, 
dole by the Root of the Saw, are two oblique Noilrils, an 
inch diftant, figur’d like the letter S. An inch behind thefe, 
his Mouth, two inches and ? over. His Lips are rugged 
with extream fmall round knobs. He hath no Teeth. 
The Apertures of Ins Gills arc five ; placed obliquely, 
not on his fides, but his Breaft, about four inches behind 
his Mouth. 
His Trunk or Body prefently behind his Head, becomes 
fives inches broad, and about three high 5 from whence it 
is again extenuated all the way to the end of his Tail. 
He hath feven triangular Finns. On the bottom of his 
fides, two Gill-Finns, not behind the Gills, as in molt 
Fifties, but for a good part before them 5 near eight inches 
long, above three broad, and almoft horizontal. Three 
inches behind thefe, two Belly-Finns, two inches broad, 
five long, and as much diftant. Directly over thefe, on 
the Back a fifth, four inches long, above three high. On 
the Back alfo, but near the Tail, a fixth, four inches long, 
and as high. The Tail-Finn, as it were half a Finn, being 
l a foot high, but underneath level with the Tail. 
Cover’d all over with a tough and dark-colour’d Skin, 
fomewhat rough, as you draw your hand forward: from 
the Belly-Finns to the end of the Tail, as it were pinched 
together into a little Ridge on each fide. There are many 
of them in the Indian-Sca. 
The reafon why he hath two Spouts, feemeth to be the 
flatnefs and breadth of his Head or Mouth ; in which the 
Water lying more fpread, could not fo expeditely be 
earn d oft by a Angle one in the middle, as by one on each 
fide. ' 
He 
