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of which, on each fide, is fatten’d obliquely inwards, half an 
inch broad,and above an inch long.The third,and the great- 
eft,ftands betwixt them in the middle of the Palate. Each of 
thefe having deep Incilions, feem, as it were, eight or ten 
Teeth. In the under Jaw, are two Punchers or Claviculars, 
each of them having two fharp Proceffes within fide. Be¬ 
hind, there feems to be only one Grinder on each fide, half 
an inch broad, and above two inches long, arched inward, 
and with fixteen or eighteen Incilions looking like fo many 
Teeth. 
Her Gills open almoft from the top of her Head to her 
Throat. The Fins are four. The Gill-Fins about five inches 
long, and as broad, placed fo low, as to meet in the Breaft, 
and fo to fupply the Breaft-Fins. The Back-Fin is extended 
from Head to Tail 5 before, an inch high 5 behind, above 
two. The Belly-Fin reaches from the Anus (which opens 
a foot behind the Head) to the Tail, about an inch deep. 
The Body, where higheft, above Hi foot, the Back a little 
convex, grows {lender all the way to the Tail, the extre¬ 
mity whereof is here wanting. She is cover’d with a tough 
Skin, now of an Iron-colour, befprinkled all over with 
round fpots. 
That which is 1110ft remarkable in this Fi(h,are his Teeth: 
which are fo made, as to be fit either for Ravine, or for 
the eating of Grafs and other Herbs on the Rocks, and un¬ 
der Water. They feem alfo to be made for .the Cracking 
of Shell-Filh. As likewife for Rumination: which may as 
well be afcrib’d to this Fifti, as to the Scar us. 
This Fi(h is one, amongft divers other inftances of Ariftc - 
ties, error, where he faith, '01 jit l^Sues mi'Jts n<h wp^hvlts, 
(a) DePart. 7 y SjyipV- (a) 
Anim. 1.3. j| lc tG p S G f t J 1]S fjfhes Grinders are commonly fold for 
7 oadjlones. As Dr. Chriflopher Menet hath alfo obferved 
in his Pinax. 
The SCATE, or Angel-Fifh. Squat ina, five Angelus 
Mar in us. The figure 111 Johnflon is tollcrablc. But the De- 
feription very fhort and imperfect. That of Rondeletius is 
better, yet not full. And either the Fiih he deferibes is a 
different Species, or his Defcription of the Teeth is not 
true. 
This is above an Ell long. His Head about '* of a yard 
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