their Eyes are not directed upwards, but fide-ways. The 
Fifh is accurately defcribed by the fame Author. ’ Saving, 
that he hath omitted the arching or bowing of Ins Body 
of the Fifh here be forced, and Ins own figure thereof 
falfe. 
This Fifh, when alive, hath a Fender Membranous firing, 
which he projects and draws in, at pleafure, as a Serpent 
doth his Tongue. With this he duckoys little fifhes, and 
then preys upon them. For plunging himfelf in Mud ( Ron- 
deletius faith,he hath feen him) and then lifting up his head 
a little, he calls out the faid firing; which the little fifhes 
taking for a Worm, and nibling at it, he immediately 
plucks them both in together. 
The SQUAR-FISH. Pifcis quadrangularis. I think it 
is not defcribed or figur’d by any. There are two fquare 
fifhes defcribed by Wormius , the former of which he fup- 
pofeth to be made fo, not bred. But neither is this, as 
that is, fpiked behind 5 nor as the other, horned before, 
befides other differences: ’Twas fent from the Eaft- 
lndies. 
Tis about fifteen inches long, four high, in the middle 
three and f over. His Forehead fquare, by the eminency 
of the Eye-brows, a little hollow 5 two inches and 1 over. 
His Eyes near an inch. His Nofe blunt, not very fteep, an 
inch and 1 long. Two fmall holes 111 the place of Noftrils. 
His Mouth exceeding little,! an inch over. His Teeth alfo 
very fmall. 
The Gills are ftrait, an inch and Hong. His back a 
They ftand a little obliquely. Like thefe, a little before 
the Tail, one above, another under. The Tail-Fm three 
inches long, and three and! high. 
Some part of both the Chaps and of the Tail are cover’d 
only rvitli a Skin. The reft of the fifh with a kind of Cjuft: 
yet not altogether fo hard as in the Cruftaceous kind. This 
Cruft is all over adorned with innumerable little round 
knobs reduced, for the 1110ft part, into hexagonal figures, 
