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1 777* ^ wild ducks were feen ; and fome drags ufed to perch upon 
* J -— i the high leaflefs trees near the fhore. 
Some pretty large blackilh fnakes were feen in the 
woods; and we killed a Targe, hitherto unknown, lizard, 
fifteen inches long and fix round, elegantly clouded with 
black and yellow; befides a fmall fort, of a brown gilded 
colour above, and rufty below. 
The fea affords a much greater plenty, and at lead: as 
great a variety as the land. Of thefe the elephant fifii, or 
pejegal/o , mentioned in Frezier’s Voyage*, are the molt 
numerous; and though inferior to many other filh, were 
very palatable food. Several large rays, nurfes, and fmall 
leather-jackets were caught; with fome fmall white bream, 
which were firmer and better than thofe caught in the 
lake. We likewife got a few foies and flounders ; two 
forts of gurnards, one of them a new fpecies ; fome fmall 
fpotted mullet; and, very unexpectedly, the fmall fifii 
with a filver band on its fide, called atherina hepfetus by 
Haflelquift t. 
But that next in number, and fuperior in goodnefs, to the 
> elephant fifii, was a fort none of us recollected to have feen 
before. It partakes of the nature both of a round and of a 
flat fifii, having the eyes placed very near each other ; the 
fore-part of the body much flattened or depreffed, and the 
reft rounded. It is of a brownifli fandy colour, with rufty 
fpots on the upper part, and whitifli below. From the 
quantity of flime it was always covered with, it feems to 
live after the manner of flat fifii, at the bottom. 
Upon the rocks are plenty of mufcles, and fome other 
fmall fliell-fifii. There are alfo great numbers of fea-ftars; 
* Tom. ii. p. 211. l2mo. Planche XVII. f Iter Palajlinum. 
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