The historie of the world. Commonly called the natvrall historie of C. Plinivs Secvndvs / Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor in Physicke.

  • Pliny the Elder
Date:
1601
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Credit: The historie of the world. Commonly called the natvrall historie of C. Plinivs Secvndvs / Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor in Physicke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chap. Chap. 6. Of great Whales, called Balen and Or- | 35.Ofpearles, howthey be engendered, and Cz. where: alfo how they be found: 7. Whether fithes doe take and deliver their | 36, The nature of the Purple fifh and the But- breathewhether they fleepe orno? rets or Murices. ties. 38. Howthe purple fithes be taken, 8. Of Dolphins and their wonderfull propet- | 37. Howmany kinds there be of purple fithes, 9, Of the Turfiones. ii g: When purple was fitft worne in the citie of 10. Of the fea Tortoifes and how they bee ta- Rome. ken. 40. The price of purple cloths at Rome, 11. Who firft devifed to flivetheTortoife thels or The dying of the Amethyft colour, of thé into leaves. Skarlet in gtaine,and the light Skarlet Hyf- 12, The skins and fhels of the fea creatures : inus. the divifion of them into their feverall kinds. 13, Of the Seale or fea Calfe. 14. Of fithes fmooth and withouthaire: how | 43.Of Scolopendres,fea Foxes, and the fifhes they {pawn and breed: and how many forts Glani. 42.Of the fifh called the Nacre,and his guide there be of them. : 44, Of the fifh called the feaRam., | 4 or keeper Pinnoteres: alfo the intel] igenice of fithes and water creatures. 15.Thenames andnacures of many fithes. 45. Of thofe things which have a third na- 16. Lhe prefages by fifhes,and their varietie. ture, beeing Heieher living creatures, ne 17.Of the Mullet & other fithes. That the fame a ni to wit, of fea Nettilsand Spun- fifhes are notin requeftin all places. 18. Of the Barble,the fea Raven Coracinus:of Stockfith and Salmon. 19,Ofthe Excecetus,C alamaries,Lampreies, A6, OF Houndfithes or fea dogs, 47. Of fea fithes that have ftonie thels:of thofe that have no fence atall: of other naftie and &e. filthie creatures. 20. The divifion offithes by the fhapes oftheir } 48.Of fea fithes venomous. bodies. 49.The difeafes incident to fifhes. 21. Of Beles. 50. The admirable generation of fithes. 22. The manner oftaking themin thelake Be- | 51. Z/em, Another difcourfe of their generati- nacus. on :and what fithes they bee which doelay 23. Thenature of the Lamprey. 24. Of flat and broad fifhes. 52. The mattices or wombes of fithes. 25. Ofthe ftay-fhip Echeneis,and his wonder- | 53.VWVhat fithes live longett. full nature. | 54. Of Oyfter pits ; and who did fit devife egecs. 26. The changeable nature of fithes. them. 27.08 the fifh n called the Lanterne,and thefea | 55. VWho firft invented ftewes and ponds to Dragon. feed Lampreies in. 28. Of fifhes wanting bloud. 56. The ftewes and ponds for other fhell Fis 29. Of the Pourcuttle,the Cuttle fifh,the Ca- thes, and who brought them up firtt robe lamarié, and the fiflicalled the Sayler or ufed. Marriner. 57.OF fifhes that hauntthe land. 30. The fifh Ozena, and Nauplius: alfo of | 58. The rats of Nilus. Lobftars. 59. Of the fifh called Anthias, and how heeis 31Of Crabs, fea Porkefpines:and of the grea- | taken. ter fort named Echinometre. 60, Of the fea ftarres. 2, Of Wilkes,C ockles,and fhell fithes. 61, Of the fifhes Da@yli, and their admirable 33.Of Scallops, Porcellanes, of the fhell fifh properties, . Murex,and other fuch. 62, What fifhes do entertaine amitic one with 34. The riches and treafures of the fea. | another, and which be ever at warre, In fumme, this Booke containeth ftories, notable things, and obfexvations, tothe number Our of
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