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Echene is Remora. Fork-tailed Remora. Head broad and 
depreffed: lower jaw longed:: on the top of the head and begin¬ 
ning of the back an oblong fhield, cut tranfverfly by 16, 17, 18, 
or 19 furrows; and the whole divided down the middle: body 
fmooth; (lender; round near the head, but compreffed towards 
the tail: tail forked: length two feet. D. 22. P. 28. V. 5. A. 22. 
This fifh is frequently taken adhering by the fhield on its head, 
to the bottom of fliips, and bodies of large fifh: and is efteemed 
tolerable good eating. Though what Oppian and Fliny relate of the 
powers of the Remora , in flopping a gaily with four hundred rowers 
and a fhip in full fail, merit no credit; yet, like the marvellous ac¬ 
counts of fome other creatures, appear not to be wholly without 
foundation. For Abbe Fortis fays, that once failing in a fmall bark, 
in the Gulph of Venice, the man at the helm fuddenly called to 
his companion to kill a Remora , which had fixed itfelf to the rudder, 
and which did then as he had often experienced before, fenfibly both 
retard and alter the courfe of the veffel. Thus what might have 
happened to a boat, is by Oppian and Pliny transferred to a galley 
or fhip. 
