Part I. 
Of Fijhes. 
103 
Belly, & e contra. The ufe whereof teems to be, To ena¬ 
ble him to make a more direct anti hidden defccnt 5 that 
fo when any Ravenous Fifh makes full fpeed at him, he 
may in an inftant ftrike himfclf under his way, and fo efcape 
him. It may alfo be noted, That being a tall Fite, and 
with his lides much compreffed, he hath a Jong Fin upon 
his Back, and another anfwering to it on his Belly: by which 
he is the better kept upright, or from fwaging on his 
Tides. 
Another MOON-FISH of the fame Species, but fome- 
what teller. Neither of thefe is above I a yard long. But 
that which Salman defcribes,was above an hundred pounds 
weight. They are taken, as Mr. Ray faith, about St. Ives 
and Penfans in Cornwall. 
CHAP. II. 
OF 0V1TER0VS FISHES , particularly 
fuch as are NOT-SC ALED. 
THe HEAD of the RIVER-WHALE. Cap# Siluri. 
A Johnjlon gives the figure of this Fite, but without a 
Defcription. That of Rondeletius is not full. Tins Head 
is I a foot long, as broad, and half as high. The Snout flat. 
Both the Chaps before of a Semilunar figure. Armed with 
an innumerable company of prickly Teeth, Handing like 
thofe in a Card wherewith Women Comb Wool!. The 
nether Chap Hands out above an inch before the upper. 
The Eyes round, and for fuch a Head, very fmall, fcarce the 
third of an inch over. Difiant three inches and i An 
inch above the corners of his Mouth, he hath two firings, 
fmootli and round, here (for they are broken) I a foot 
long, about the thicknefs of an Earth-Worm , taper’d and 
bended backward 3 outwardly nervous, inwardly Cartila¬ 
ginous or Gnfly. His Gills defcending almofi from the 
top of liisHead, meet under his Throat. 
What may be the ufeof thefe firings is uncertain, and 
to be collected only from obterving their communication 
with other parts, and the manners of the Fifh. But the 
intent 
