Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 25, 1794
Primary Source Reference:
Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 25 Jan 1794
Additional Source Text:
"When this fish was found, a number of stones were appended to strings or ligaments that projected from the front of its head, which occasioned a conjecture, as it is not furnished with sufficient fins to resist the violence of the tides and currents, that it fastened with these ligaments on whatever it found at the bottom; so that the stones answered the purpose of anchors; and the ligaments of a glutinous sticky nature, that of cables. Some of the stones are in the same phial."
Notes:
This fish has not been identified.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Common Name:
Squib
