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A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
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caudata in Willughby's Ichthyol. Table 9.23 and the guaparva of Piso, but
does not answer their figures in every particular.

Plate 2 Figure 2. There are 2 sorts of porpoises: the one the
long-snouted porpoise, as the seamen call it; and this is the dolphin of
the Greeks. The other is the bottle-nose porpoise, which is generally
thought to be the phaecena of Aristotle.

Plate 2 Figure 7. This is the guaracapema of Piso and Marcgrave, by
others called the dorado. It is figured in Willughby's Ichthyol. Table
0.2 under the name of Delphin Belgis.

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INDEX.

Allegrance, one of the Canary Islands, its view from several points.

Amphisbaena (snake) described.

Amplitude, difference between the morning and evening amplitude.

Arifah (fruit) described.

An account of several plants collected in Brazil, New Holland, Timor, and
New Guinea, referring to the figures in Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

An account of some fishes figured on Plates 2 and 3.

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