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io 6 
Of Fijhes. Part I. 
and great pains is taken to aflign the Caufe 5 and to prove, 
That though the Moon be made of a Green Cheefe, yet is 
not the only Nell; of Maggots. Rotideletius alone, in 
afcribing it to fhis eafily altering the polition of the Helm, 
and fo the motion of the Ship, coming near to good 
fenfe: efpecially if he had proved, That the Name of the 
Fifh, and the Story, were not Things much older than the 
Helm of a Ship. 
’Tis plain, that the Tradition had a very early beginning, 
when little light Boats were the Ships which people us’d. 
To the fide whereof, this Filh fattening her felf, might eafily 
make it fwag, as the leaft preponderance on either fide vjll 
do, and fo retard its Courfe. And the Story once begot 
upon a Boat, might fill, like the Filh it felf, flick to 
it, though turn’d to a Ship. Affigning as great a power to 
this Neptune in the Sea, as the Poets have done to Apollo the 
God of Life in the Heavens 5 who yet appears by the beft 
accounts of him put together, to have been at firft no better 
than a Crafty Mountebank, 
The TOBACCOPIPE-FISH. By the People of Bra file, 
and by Marggraviws who deferibes it, called Petimbuaba. 
He hath only omitted the Line, which, like a very fmall 
Chain, runs along both fides, as m the Sea-Scorpion, from 
Head to Tail: Both the Body and Snout are long and fen¬ 
der, from whence its Name. Tis alfo pictur’d, and in fome 
fort defcribed by Pifo. 
The PRICKLED TURBUT. Rhombus aculeatus. So 
called from his figure and the prickles on his Back or brown 
fide. Defcribed by Rondeletius. The two firings that 
hang at the nether Chap, are here wanting. He is find, 
having laid himfelf in Mud, withthefe, to Prey upon little 
Fifh,which feeing them ngle,make at them,fuppofing them 
to be Weeds. 
The little GLOB-FISH. Orb'vs minor: So called from his 
Orbicular figure. Defcribed in moll Mufceums. Mott 
curioufiy figur’d in that of Calceolarias. He is armed with 
long, round, hard, and fharp Spikes or Needles all round 
about, almolf like thofe of a Hedg-Hog 5 and is a fort of 
Porcupine-Fifh. 
’Tis probable. That the Fifh fwims with thefe Needles 
all clofely couched down round about, for that otherwife 
they 
