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821

Miscellaneous notes on the study of Zoology.

Of the way in which the tail of a fish acts in propelling the fish; as in the eel, snake and leech.

[Footnote: A sketch of a fish, swimming upwards is in the original, inserted above this text.—Compare No. 1114.]

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

820 * 822
XIII * XVI
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Miscellaneous notes on the study of Zoology.
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