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Scientific American, Vol. 47, No. 19 (1882) (1882)

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eedy and practical mode of nuni is the only river in British Guiana where they are to be eries are sometimes very smal], with only a fisherman and a locomotion. A.speed of twenty miles au hour on a mac- found; and as during high floods this river is said to mingle boy to-steer. After the fish is… … most remarkable for its bulk. It was named by Sir Robert TRICYCLE SKATE. pression and that fire by which it appears lighted. Irai-i Schomburgk, and its skeleton is one of the most massive had adopted a similar position, when the crack of the bow known among fishes. The scales are almost solid bone,…

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