-Is called by Ray and others..the lun-fiA^ as beihgtyotfridfxandfomit?-
ti'rig a kind of fpleridour in adam-room; brothers'- (,wiA- Rónde-
leöus)Ae:AoorixfiA, becaufe-notkóhly’ round 'and Aining benight,
but havffllg A e Aape of the- Crefcént (‘ftfë-Plaïê ihtvi. Figi v® ’rpËlgè
•• 'betwist-1 its little peftoral fin and eye jph^tyfiat is Ante
remarkable in this creature large a l u c h
little A ös^ iafrA A@fè: Aioftly ‘ at its Amdëri pafp !■ this ’ fiA is one
conlpichous inftartce how artfully naturé:adapts -A e A inftruments *$f-
motion to i R fiïrrrfjÉifi AèAódy-whieh is to be moved j it is- fo-thin,
long, and flexile, that a-laïgë-'firi in1 the former pkrt wórild'hiiïdéi:
its fwiftoefs ; being itfelf but one thicker fin, if:’^afts itfelf forward
ih a great meafore by the meer bending o f ’ its baék from fide tó
fide, whilft its wedge-like forth, and' matp-pointèd Head, eafily
Aeir way ; but A e chief momentum is "from behind, where the
tail-fin, b b, is fisfed as a rudder and aü o£r töó, reaching froth tóp
to bottom, to keep the whólé'body ori‘ its<edge the more fteadily;
as Well as further and guide1 its progress: at: ëaiPffei» o f A l fefingiiLf
appendix is a fia, the upper one, c,-railing itfelf^abovè'fl^bbHyj
and the under One, </, tending below it, both by their fpread-.erJs
creafing the force ifi Aefe parts, co-operating with thé 'wavy flexures
of the* body, and accelerating its progrefs in the feme manner as A
oar working at A e ftem of a boat, drives forward and direóts A e
whole machine.
x - O f fpinous or bony-fiA, the rays óf their back fdftr'and flexible;
(called AJelli from their afinine colour) we havé-the cod or keeling
» and of that two forts, A e one whitiA afinine, the other ruddy-
brown fpotted wiA yeHow ^écks ; th e® ff hkè thè-^Érf or fidei
ftreak, from the gills to A e tail quite white','A é other of a browner
caft. The firftis the Éjéllus ’mdjór vüïgaHj Rati, page § 3f & c .
(Gadus \tus Artedi gen. P ifcè iff, between Aree and fout feet
long, a fiA, for the delicacy arid firmnefs of its fleA, equal to moftj
the other we call commonly the Tamlin Cod, Red or Rock-Cod,
about two feet long $ the Afelïüs major Jdxatilis-jëü rubèns> Jago,
in Ray, page 165.
Befides others “mentioned by Mr. R a y “, wé have the poor or
power, Afellus mollis minimus óf Jago (Ray* page 163, N. 6)
bearded as A e Afèllus- Majors ■
Of two-finned fpinous Afelli (befides the uleful hake and ling),
the great forked-beard is to be noted; it is eighteen inches and a
half long, Barbus major Cornubienjis cirris bifurcatis (Jago, Ray,
page 163), and the lefier forked-beard about five inches long, Bar-
bus minor Cornubienjis cirrirbijurcis^ ibid. Ray, page 154. Thefe
* The whiting pollack—Rawlin pollack, bib or blind-hadoc—Whiting. Ray, page 53, 54, 55;
tvyo are feldom taken on .our.eoafts, and therefore Mr. Jago reckoned
them grogftg, tJa.-.nonadefcrip.ft. *.tr
, Of fiA óf the tunny kind, we . have have the Anny^hliaS jSpaniA
Mackrel, i}\e,dË(y)ite%us, et O^gimts Aufornm | Mr. Ray;-law one. at
Penzance feven feet long: It weighs fometimes one hundredrpounds
Weight:' It differs itynothing-|emvthe-common maekrel, but that
if;!fe much ,< Ray^vpaggi^|"i;|!^
: f; The,{ mackfi^yfeö^pgf) >is. taken(in.great plenty on tfie.fouthera
coaft ©f ‘Corrityally’^nd'i .not only of, üfé when. fieAy but) IsMalted
énd pickled, an^ kept all the ^winter ^tq^th© grssatj&fefrjaf Ae-poor.
^Fhè coloured-^freaks df this.fiA arg.,jp|fly .admired ^hén itrisïaeaA,
but?greatly Ap^ip1- A beauty when it, tya living., , -When, it A firft
Arightj-its colpurs art'v%;otó| and Mvely ;,Ae- .feeaks ,on^,Ae back
Or- a full, dark,? blue green, me. general ground, of* a,height willow
green“; but, as tficfiAgrqws fainter^., and. nearer its exit, Ae Aeaks
löfii their ftréngth^grow paler, and Aé-, bluegö^ïqff put- Ae- fiA
into # pail will begin to rmqy£, : and,, ,-as .v A e. fi A fcsf
vivés, the cqlóurs -Mcövgr their lu A e takè it iöut of Ae water, and
Ae colours fade, arid falftt away as before. However inexpliqablf
Aeréfore Aat configuration of parts is to which .colours, ;ato,’to be
attributed,- it is plain, m Ais cafe, that Ae height ofAe colouring ia ow^-
ingto the cireulatig^of thejuices in Aofo fine,capillaiy dudts and mem-
branes óf which the outward covering is cbmpofcd; as A e blood A g nates,
A e mais fettles mtp a flate of reft, incapable of refledtifig the
r^ss«lfe^fit with equal vivacity':, But ^ateverimayfb^AéiScaTife A e
Varied, rich, and: finiAed, colouringsvo^fiA are Apug infiances how
intent Providence;has always been of diverfifyijrg her. works, -,that
A è y may make thar way into our admiration Arough A e eye, as
well Is gratify our tafte. It was perhaps from beauty ^bf Aefe
colours that Ovid took Ae hint of reprefenting the goddefs-of ^beauty,
Venus, (during Ae general paniek into which Xyph^us Ijad Arown
the gods) as chufing to conceal herfelf under Ac-iorAtof a fiA.
Among the flippety anguilli-form, we have the whiftle-fiA,,A e slgt. vif:-
Tock-ling of Jago (Ra[y, page 164); in Chefhire, called a Sea-lochej
Mufiela marina\vulg!0rki Its icon is publiAed from Mr., Jago by
Ray, page 162 ; and. befides oAers mentioned tty Mr. Ray (page
73), I found onCareg-killas,. A Mount’s Bay,, a particular kind of
iuck-fiA, of which, as very different from the common Remora ó f
auAors, two icons may be feen ibf AeKXfttural'
xxvin, xxix j Ae former Aews A e back, Ae latten Aè: under and
fucking part: the fiA is fmooAy and purple coloured. ,
Mr. Jago has added to Mr. Ray’s Catalogue the fmooth Aan,
CataphraEius foots Cornubienjis, Ray, page 1 64-r V Mtdgndmco. feu
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