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... round the altars and the tomb to wind , His glittering length of volumes trails behind . Pitt . But if after all fome lively writer fhould purfue the Naturalifts with more wit than argument , and more humor than good - nature , it ...
... round the altars and the tomb to wind , His glittering length of volumes trails behind . Pitt . But if after all fome lively writer fhould purfue the Naturalifts with more wit than argument , and more humor than good - nature , it ...
Page 34
... rounded with a thick layer of fat ( blubber ) analo- gous to the lard on hogs . The number of their fins never exceeds three , viz . two pectoral fins , and one back fin ; but in fome fpecies the laft is wanting . Their tails are placed ...
... rounded with a thick layer of fat ( blubber ) analo- gous to the lard on hogs . The number of their fins never exceeds three , viz . two pectoral fins , and one back fin ; but in fome fpecies the laft is wanting . Their tails are placed ...
Page 42
... ROUND - LIPPED WHALE . Balæna tripinnis maxillam in- feriorem rotundam et fupe- riore multo latiorem ha- bens . Sib . Phalain . 33. tab . T. 3 . Idem . Raii fyn . pifc . 16 . TH La Baleine a museau rond . Briffon Cet . 222 . B. fiftula ...
... ROUND - LIPPED WHALE . Balæna tripinnis maxillam in- feriorem rotundam et fupe- riore multo latiorem ha- bens . Sib . Phalain . 33. tab . T. 3 . Idem . Raii fyn . pifc . 16 . TH La Baleine a museau rond . Briffon Cet . 222 . B. fiftula ...
Page 46
... Linnæus informs us , that this fpecies pursues and terrifies the porpeffes so much , as often to drive them on fhore . III . The III . The ROUND - HEADED CACHALOT . Balæna minor 46 GREAT - HEADED CACHALOT . Class IV .
... Linnæus informs us , that this fpecies pursues and terrifies the porpeffes so much , as often to drive them on fhore . III . The III . The ROUND - HEADED CACHALOT . Balæna minor 46 GREAT - HEADED CACHALOT . Class IV .
Page 47
... round , the opening of the mouth fmall : Sibbald fays it had no fpout hole , but only noftrils . We rather think , that the former being placed at the extremity of the nose was mistaken by him for the latter . The teeth we have in our ...
... round , the opening of the mouth fmall : Sibbald fays it had no fpout hole , but only noftrils . We rather think , that the former being placed at the extremity of the nose was mistaken by him for the latter . The teeth we have in our ...
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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