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... it feeming not improbable but they might be a couple that had escaped out of fome Weft India ship that had foundered , or been caft away near the Cornish coast , Genus Genus II . Body naked . Four legs , the SPINOUS TORTOISE . Clafs III ,
... it feeming not improbable but they might be a couple that had escaped out of fome Weft India ship that had foundered , or been caft away near the Cornish coast , Genus Genus II . Body naked . Four legs , the SPINOUS TORTOISE . Clafs III ,
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... coast of Scotland , as remarked by Sir Robert Sibbald , was forty - fix feet , and its greatest circumference twenty . The head of an oblong form , floping down , and growing narrower to the nofe ; fix feet eight inches from the end of ...
... coast of Scotland , as remarked by Sir Robert Sibbald , was forty - fix feet , and its greatest circumference twenty . The head of an oblong form , floping down , and growing narrower to the nofe ; fix feet eight inches from the end of ...
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... coast of Scotland , the head was of an oblong form , and of fuch a bulk as to exceed that of all the reft of the body . The end of the upper jaw was five feet longer than that of the lower : a little above the middle of the nose was ...
... coast of Scotland , the head was of an oblong form , and of fuch a bulk as to exceed that of all the reft of the body . The end of the upper jaw was five feet longer than that of the lower : a little above the middle of the nose was ...
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... the whales which frequent the coast of Scotland . We acknowledge ourselves much indebted him for information in respect to many of those E : fish , 1 fish , few of which frequent the fouthern feas of Clafs IV . 55 GRAM PUS.
... the whales which frequent the coast of Scotland . We acknowledge ourselves much indebted him for information in respect to many of those E : fish , 1 fish , few of which frequent the fouthern feas of Clafs IV . 55 GRAM PUS.
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... skin , jaws , and what is styled whalebone : they have now in a manner quit- ted the coasts , scarce one in a fummer appearing in those feas . ** With Sizza ** With the anal fin . IV . The Class IV . 8r BASKING SHARK .
... skin , jaws , and what is styled whalebone : they have now in a manner quit- ted the coasts , scarce one in a fummer appearing in those feas . ** With Sizza ** With the anal fin . IV . The Class IV . 8r BASKING SHARK .
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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