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Dampier, William, 1652-1715

"A Voyage to New Holland"

The
vesiculae are round, of the bigness expressed in the figure.
Table 5 Figure 2. Fucus ex Nova Guinea Fluviatilis Pisanae J.B. foliis.
These plants are so apt to vary in their leaves, according to their
different states, that it is hard to say this is distinct from the last.
It has in several places (not all expressed in the figure) some of the
small 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.


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