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English: In the Venetian gulf, between Venice and Ravenna, two miles above Quioza, Anno Dom. 1550. there was taken a flying fifh, verie horrible and monftrous, beeing four foot long, it had a verie great head, with two eies ftanding in a line, and not one againft another, with two ears, and a double mouth, a fnout verie flefhie and green, two wings, five holes in her throat, like thofe of a Lampreie, a tail an ell long, at the fetting on whereof there were two little wings. This monfter was brought alive to Quioza, and prefented to the chief of the cittie, as a thing whereof the like had not been formerly feen.