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made by the Fifh. When ’tis got on Board it makes mighty flrokes with its 
Fins and Head, but moftly with his Tail, having therein a very great flrength, 
which Mariners well knowing immediately cut off, and then the Arterice 
by the Spina dorft {purt out vaft quantities of blood, till the Shark is weakned 
and Dead. This Fifh is very well known to Natural Hiftorians by the narne 
of Canis Carcharias G Lamia Rond. ¢ aliorum Gefneri 5 it has this particular to 
it, with fome others of its own Tribe, rhat the Mouth jis in its under part 
fo that it muft turn the Belly upwards to Prey, and were it not for thar 
time that it is in turning, in which the purfued Fifhes efcape, there were 
nothing could avoid it, for ’tis very quick in Swimming, and has.a vatt 
ftrength, with the largeft Swallow of any Fith, and is very devouring. — It has 
feveral Ducts on the Head, fill’d with a fort of Gelly, from which, being 
prefs'd by the water, iflues an undtuous, vifcid, flippery, and mucilaginous 
Matter, very proper to make the Fifh very glib to {ail the readier through the 
Water. Moft Fifhes have fomething Analogous tothis. He had Three Rows 
of moveable Teeth, and behind each Ear in a Cavity an almoft fluid Body, 
Which when in its natural bignefs might be almoft round, of the bigne(S of 
a Six Pence, and as thick as a Crown-piece;. this being put into Paper, 
and dried a little, grows hard, and if touched falls into an extremely. fine 
Powder, commended very much by ali, Seamen:in the: Stone; and difficult 
Labour, as a very great Remedy, and by them very carefully raken out 
and preferved : this is what is mentioned by fome Natural! Hiftorians under 
the name of Lapis tuberonum, the Spanifh name for a Shark being Tituron. 1 
once on opening one of the Female Sharks found the Eggs. in the Ovary 
perfectly round as big as the top of oncs Thumb, and at another time the 
Fetus or young ones in their Coats, lodged in the Uterus, after the manner 
of our Viviparous Creatures, for upon cutting the Coats the {mall live Fifhes 
came out, being able to Frisk and Swim up and down inthe Salt-Water, 
They are commonly about Ships in their way to the: Zaft-and We/}-Zndies, 
and about the Ifland of Famaica, and are no bad Meat, though hated. becaufe 
thought to Prey on..Men ; they are of a prodigious bignefs.\in the Mediter- 
TAnCAN. : j ais ‘. 
Thole of Nice told Gyllius one of Four thoufand Pound weight had, been 
taken wherein was a Solid Man, and thofe of Mar (eilles took one had a 
lovicatum hominem in him. Arrows of Savages are fharpen’d with the Teeth of 
thefe, being fharp. and venomous, fo as feldom to be cured, Lact 
One bit off a Seaman by the Leg to the Thigh. Linfchor. 
Mafiilie & Nice aliquando capta he homo 
inventus, Rond. Wherefore he is of Opinion that this was the Fifh, in which 
Fonas was for three Days and three Nights, called a Whale, the want of an 
Afpera Arteria, which (i ordinary Whales is necefary for breathing ) {iraitens the 
Gula, makes the Gula in this Fifh fo widethat a Man may be {wallowed entire. 
The Teeth which are faid to be Serpents Tongues, are {et in Silver, and hang’d 
about Childrens Necks to help their Teething, and likewife for Tooth-Picks. 
They cut off with their double fers of Teeth an Arm or Leg, as with a 
Rafor, and cat Turtle, which Men feed on when taken out of their. Bel 
lies, Col.213. 
The Skin is rough drawn from Tail to Head, from one to five Fathom 
long. . It bites great pieces from Whales, as if dug out with Shovels, and De- 
vours all the Fat of Whales under Water. Train Oil is made of their Livers, 
and Men ear. their Flefh hang’d up; they fell them in Spain, They eat many 
Men in wafhing, Martens. The Stones in the Head of this Fifh are good for 
thofe who cannot make water, and for pain in the Liver, Xim. Rochefort 
calls thefe Stones their Cervelle, and he as well as Du Zertre aflure us ee 
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