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ne passive or LOOK backward or
the opposite direction. The little {
move It's eyes Independently Of
ot"ef' and In entirely different Nd
'omical effect is produced by thd
her In which these fishes peer a
objects, reminding one of very
sighted person.
releasing itself from its support
progress slowly still in n vertica
ton its tail curved inward, its
fin rapidly undulatine, reminding
a screw propeller, and with It's %
fins vibrating in harmony.
Incased as 1t Is in an almost in
coat of mail, progression can not
fected by lateral flexion Of the b,
IN ordinary fishes. and with the
in vertical direction is limited.
with such limited powers of pr
sion nice adjustment Of organs
essary. One method Is said to use
bladder, comparatively large and
distented by quantity Of gns so
OF the body that this entire bod
hydrostatic apparatus of extreme
sibility. A proof of this Is thad
single bubble of gas no larger thd
head OF a very small pin be ext1
the fish Immediately loses its eqlI
and sinks to the bottom on VIII
must crawl until the wound has
cicatr1zed and a new supply Of
secreted by the internal membra
the bladder. It Is well known, tn
eggs Of Hippocampus are taken G.:
by tho male In an abdominal sd
pouch.
The name Hippocampus Is derived
the Greek words hippos. sign
horse, and kampos or kampe, a ca
lar And in fact, the head is
and the neck arched like those
horse, while the body or tail rese|
a caterpillar
One 18th century writer states
Its size does not exceed n fingers id
it has a tough and rugosc skin,
neither man nor fish Of other kirI
TEEN 1t as food. In color it is someI
dark. in other cases white. II bel
small fin, little elevated alonl
back. and another small one on the
whore it joins the head. The mol
small and tubiform. Dead or dried
mems have the tail coiled inward
that Of a chameleon; 1t is furnished
small, blunt prickles, and is Of
rangular section. The spinous proie(
arise from transverse folds which
the tail.
Certain authors profess that the
Of Hippocampus when commingled
liquid pitch. tallow, or oil Of
maioram cure badness and pain 4
sides. An application of oil Of rose
to which the live animal has been
ped and killed is an efflcacious re
for chills and fever
DR. Eastman mentions alleged med
properties of liippocampus gravel.
forth by Natthior, Belon. Ron
Gesner. and others. Aristotle doe!
mention the Hippocampus, and this
was used by the poets of c,assica
tiquity as the name Of a sea mo,
half horse and half fish, on whicl
divinities rode. It Is probably in
character that conventionalized RI
entations of the creature appear In I
can and other ancient works Of art.
a curious confusion of this odd
with some other species occurred
ago, when its identity was mixed
the Remora, or sucking-fish also
as "Ship-stayer, which Glove to
and held them steadfast in the sc
though the ships were aground
though the wind and waves stro
wreck them. Another story conr
the Hippocampus with the ell-like
versus" said 10 have a cap attach
its head with which It captured
fish and tortoise. and was ther
used by the natives, reported by O.
bus for catching other fish. 1t alsc
once called sea dragon" or "Zyde
and again from the latin, "Equus mi
Horse of the Sea-" on account n
fact that these creatures were all
posed to die in the air or at least .
when out of water.