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all short leaves, or seed vessels mentioned in the former; which makes me apt to believe it the same, gathered in a different state; besides the broad leaves of that and this agree as to their shape and indentures. ... AN ACCOUNT OF SOME FISHES THAT ARE FIGURED IN PLATES 2 AND 3 FISHES. Plate 3 Figure 5. This is a fish of the tunny kind, and agrees well enough with the figure in Table 3 of the Appendix to Mr. Willughby's History of Fishes under the name of gurabuca; it differs something, in the fins especially, from Piso's figure of the guarapuca. Plate 3 Figure 4. This resembles the figure of the Guaperva maxima caudata in Willughby's Ichthyol. Table 9.23 and the guaparva of Piso, but does not answer their figures in every particular. Plate 2 Figure 2. There are 2 sorts of porpoises: the one the long-snouted porpoise, as the seamen call it; and this is the dolphin of the Greeks. The other is the bottle-nose porpoise, which is generally thought to be the phaecena of Aristotle. Plate 2 Figure 7. This is the guaracapema of Piso and Marcgrave, by others called the dorado. It is figured in Willughby's Ichthyol. Table 0.2 under the name of Delphin Belgis. ... INDEX. Allegrance, one of the Canary Islands, its view from several points. Amphisbaena (snake) described. Amplitude, difference between the morning and evening amplitude. Arifah (fruit) described. An account of several plants collected in Brazil, New Holland, Timor, and New Guinea, referring to the figures in Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. An account of some fishes figured on Plates 2 and 3. Bahia de todos los Santos (Bay of All-Saints) in Brazil: its harbour and town described. the product and trade of the country. their shipping and timber. the soil and fruit of the country. the winds and seasons. the time of cutting sugarcane. its view from several points. Bill-bird described. Birds of New Holland. Blake, sunk the Spanish galleons near Tenerife. Brazil, the view of its coast, see Bahia. Britain (New), an island discovered by the author, well-inhabited, and probably affording rich commodities. Bubbles, like small pearls, swimming thick in the sea. Cables, made of a sort of hair growing on trees in Brazil. Callavances, a fruit in Mayo. Canary Islands: their product and trade. the character of their present governor. Cape of Good Hope, its view from several points. Cashew (fruit) described. Channel (English)
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