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248
CURIOUS CREATURES.
of curious fish, for Zahn gives us a very graphic picture
of the different sides of two
small fish captured in Den-
mark and Norway (i.e., pre-
sumably in some northern
region) with curious letters
marked on them. He does
not attempt to elucidate the
writing ; and as it is of no
known language, we may
charitably put it down to the
original " Volapiik." He
also favours us with the
effigies of a curious fish found in Silesia in 1609, also
ornamented with an inscription in an unknown tongue.
He also supplies us with the portrait of a pike, which
was daintily marked with a cross on its side and a star
on its forehead.
But too much space would be taken up if I were to
recount all the piscine marvels that he relates.
Aristotle mentions that fish do not thrive in cold
weather, and he says that those which have a stone in
their head, as the chromis, labrax, scisena, and phagrus,
suffer most in the winter ; for the refrigeration of the

stone causes them to freeze, and be driven on shore.
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Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus. throughout the text.
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23575003
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76213 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images)
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32031 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images)
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Page 248
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  • Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus. throughout the text.
  • Monsters Are Real
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