REMORA, or SUCKING-FISH, a species of EQUINUS. Many incredible things are related of this animal by the ancients; as that it had the power of stopping the largest and swiftest vessel in its course; and even to this day it is asserted by the fishermen in the Mediterranean, that it has a power of retarding the motion of their boats by attaching itself to them; for which
Remorse, which reason they kill it whenever they perceive this retardation. But in what manner the remora perforins this, we have no account.