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Abdominal, Loricaria, Atherina, Salmon, Fistularia Pike, Argentina, Clupea or Herring, Exocetas or flying fish Cyprinus or Carp, Cobytes or Loach, Amia, Mormyrus they all propagate by spawn & breathe by the Gills and only in Water - a single Herring if [?] to multiply unmolested would have a progeny in 20 years greater in [?] than [?] rich Globes as this these have blood, without [?] Of the Supplimentary tribes of fishes Crustaceous fishes divided into the Lobster tribe & tortoise The Lobster has two teeth in it's [?] & three more in the stomach the spinal Marrow is in the breast bone. they are herma= phrodite and are self impregnated, the Ovary is backward towards the tail where the peas appear in red, from the receptacle pass 2 Canals that open on each side to the Jointures of the shell at the belly through these the peas descend to be excluded and placed under the tail, where they are preserved from Danger till come to maturity, when being furnished with limbs and motion they drop off into the water - in a certain time they become too large for their shells and [?]ally moult the shell bursting at the Joints - und they are at this time very [?] Thus renewed and permormed by means of a chalky substance found in the lower part of the stomach improperly call'd Crabs Eyes The teeth in the stomach break