The electrical eel, or, Gymnotus electricus : inscribed to the honourable members of the R***l S*****y / by Adam Strong, naturalist [pseud].

  • James Perry
Date:
1777
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The electrical eel, or, Gymnotus electricus : inscribed to the honourable members of the R***l S*****y / by Adam Strong, naturalist [pseud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lord^ M—, to Kitty Frederick brought An Eel—which was of no great note : Then be nor coy-—or filly ! But now repair to fee, and feel— Lord 'f Ch—1—y Ihows this wond’rous Eel, And—lives in Piccadilly. CETERA DESUNT ^ This noble Peer of the verdant ribbon and north flar, hath fyftematically proved, and by it, deftroyed the fame of Euclid, by the plaineft demonftration in life, that no man can raife a perpendicular at will—- Nemo mortalium omnibus horis fapit^ f It is difficult to dermine where his Lordfhip procured this Eelit is given out that he found it in a river of Surinam, but I believe the Circumftance no more than Lady Grofvenor, or Mrs. E—-E-t.
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