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Drawiing of a Puffer Fish.

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Captain George BERKELEY: These small beautiful fish are highly toxic. Berkeley makes the scientific observation that the fish was found in some weed floating in the gulf of Florida at latitute 38.43 N and Longitude 40.28 West. He notes that the fish is drawn in natural size and colours.

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