Part L 
104 
Of Fijhet. 
intent of their ftructure is lefs obfeure 5 the Nervous part 
ferving to draw it too and fro ; the Cartilage, asthefpring 
in a Pendulum Watch, to flint the motion and make it more 
Ready. And being flexible, it does the fame as a joynted 
Series of many little Bones. 
The little SEA-UNICORNE. Monoceros minor. It was 
fent from Brafile , I find it not defenbed nor pictur’d in 
any Author. Nor is it certain whether it be Ovipa¬ 
rous. Yeti have ventur’d to place, and (hall defenbe it 
here. 
Tisa yard long, almoft * high, with its Tides very much 
comprelTed, being not above two inches and a I over. 
High-Bac’d, like a Perch. And alfo (which is unufual) 
bow-Belli’d. His Head hath fome refemblanceto that of 
a Bahoone 5 from the top to the bottom four inches and I. 
His Mouth, which ftands below, not much above an inch 
over. His Teeth, in both Chaps, the thicknefs of a midling 
Needle, the eight of an inch long. His Gills fubtended 
to his Eyes and Mouth like the fegment of a Circle. His 
Eyes ftand near the top of his Head; and are an inch 
over. 
From the top is prolonged afmooth (now) blackifh, 
round, taper’d, flrait Horn, couched a little down below 
the level, two inches round about the Root, and three 
inches long. It feemeth not to have any Bone within it ; 
nor is it inferted into any, as in the Vnicorne of the Cetace¬ 
ous kind before deferibed; but is the Skin it felf prolonged 
and hardened (as the Cuticula turns to Comes ) into a kind 
of horn. 
The Fins are feven. The Gill-Fins two inches long, and 
one broad. The Back-Fin is extended from Head to Tail, 
above an inch and I high. The BreafbFins I of an inch 
before the Anus , near two inches long. The Belly-Fin, 
like that of the Back,and extended from the Amis to the end 
of the Tail. That at the end of the Tail triangular , two 
inches and Hong, three high. The Anus, if you meafure 
by a perpendicular from the Gills, opens, oddly, not above 
an inch and i behind them. He is cover’d with a (now) 
blackifh, thick and tough Skin, and when you draw your 
hand forward, alfo rough. 
The SHIPH ALTER. Echeneis. Remora. Johnjion hath 
given 
