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Page 21
... sometimes pains about the navel ; and in confequence of these death itself ** .. But the violence of the symptoms depends much on the season of the year , the difference of the climate , the fize or rage of the animal , or the depth or ...
... sometimes pains about the navel ; and in confequence of these death itself ** .. But the violence of the symptoms depends much on the season of the year , the difference of the climate , the fize or rage of the animal , or the depth or ...
Page 26
... sometimes found in vast num- bers twisted together . Like the former it is quite innocent . Doctor Bor- lase mentions a variety of this serpent with a pointed tail ; and adds , that he was informed that a man loft his life by the bite ...
... sometimes found in vast num- bers twisted together . Like the former it is quite innocent . Doctor Bor- lase mentions a variety of this serpent with a pointed tail ; and adds , that he was informed that a man loft his life by the bite ...
Page 43
... sometimes grow to the length of twenty feet ; they make but little noise in blowing , are very tame , come very near the ships , and will accompany them for a great way . Belon describes and figures a fifh very much re- fembling , if ...
... sometimes grow to the length of twenty feet ; they make but little noise in blowing , are very tame , come very near the ships , and will accompany them for a great way . Belon describes and figures a fifh very much re- fembling , if ...
Page 53
... sometimes vary ; for in the river St. Laurence there is a white kind ; and Doctor Borlafe , in his voyage to the Scilly ifles , ob- served a small fpecies of cetaceous fish , which he calls thornbacks , from their broad and sharp fin on ...
... sometimes vary ; for in the river St. Laurence there is a white kind ; and Doctor Borlafe , in his voyage to the Scilly ifles , ob- served a small fpecies of cetaceous fish , which he calls thornbacks , from their broad and sharp fin on ...
Page 68
... sometimes found of the weight of fifteen pounds . The body is almoft circular , and is thicker than others of the ray kind . The skin is soft , smooth , Hift . de l'Academie des Sciences , 1714 . ** The torpedo is well acquainted with ...
... sometimes found of the weight of fifteen pounds . The body is almoft circular , and is thicker than others of the ray kind . The skin is soft , smooth , Hift . de l'Academie des Sciences , 1714 . ** The torpedo is well acquainted with ...
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alfo almoſt alſo anal fin antients Arift Arted belly Belon black ſpots BLENNY body branchioftegous rays coafts color Cyprinus Defcr deſcribed dorfo dorſal fin duſky eſteemed eyes falmon fame Faun fays fcales fecond feet feven fharp fides fifh filvery fin confifts firft firſt firſt dorſal fin fiſh fiſhermen fize flender fmall foft fome fometimes fpecies fpines fpotted fuch fuec fyft fynon Gefner pifc Genus gills Gronov Halieut head Hift Icth inches irides itſelf laft largeſt laſt lateral line length Linnæus maxilla moſt mouth muſt nofe noſe numbers obferved Oppian pectoral fins pinna placed Plinii lib Pliny pounds Raii fyn reſemblance reſpect river Rondel Salvian ſcales Schonevelde ſeaſon ſeen ſeven ſharp ſhort ſkin ſmall ſmooth ſome ſpawn ſpecies ſpines ſpiny ſtrong Syft Synon tail taken teeth themſelves theſe Theſe fiſh thofe thoſe toad uſed vaft ventral fins whale yellow Zooph