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procured at different times in the Orkneys and Zetland, and one nearly 6 feet in 

 length "was captured in Sanday. Mortimer, in 1750, exhibited at the Royal Society 

 one taken at Leith. It is scarcely necessary to enumerate all the various captures, 

 a long list of which may he seen in the Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the 

 Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society for 1809, p. 76. Pennant records two from 

 Scotland, and in 1760, one 3 feet 6 inches long, and weighing 70 or 80 lb., was 

 taken in Northumberland, and described by Harrison in the British Zoology. 

 One in Filey Bay, Yorkshire, 3 feet 5 inches long, and in 1772 one, 4 feet 5 inches 

 long and weighing 140 lb., at Brixham. Paget recorded one in December, 1823, 

 and another in November, 1828, captured at Yarmouth : and Scouler one from 

 the Clyde in 1833. In 1835, during the early part of the summer, one was taken 

 in the west of Cornwall, and in August the same year another near Conway 

 (Couch) : and in July, 1839, one at Hunstanton, on the east coast of Norfolk, 

 which was placed in the Wisbeach Museum. March 3rd, 1839, one was taken at 

 Port Gordon, near Elgin, 3 feet 10 inches long, weighing 112 lb. (Gordon, Zool. 

 1852, p. 3459), and several years subsequently another from near Nairn. In 

 1844, on July 4th, Mr. Gurney (Zool. p. 679) recorded one at Norwich which had 

 been left by the tide on the beach at Eccles, it was a male weighing 4 or 5 stone. 

 Norman mentions one taken in February, 1849, at Flamborough Head : and in 

 1850, another weighing 72 lb. at Redcar (Rudd, Zool. ix, ls51, p. 3010). Several 

 others have been recorded from Scotland and the Avest of England, and Edward 

 states it to have been taken in Banffshire on several occasions. A local example 

 is in the St. Andrew's Museum (Mcintosh). In June, 1865, a large specimen 

 was taken in St. Austell's Bay, Cornwall. 



In Ireland we find one recorded in Sampson's Derry (p. 337), which was sent 

 to the Dublin Society: in 1835 one was taken in June in the Foyle (Ordnance 

 Survey). In October, 1842, one was sent from Train ore to the Dublin University 

 Museum : and in June, 1849, one weighing 55 lb. was taken in Derry (Derry 

 Standard) : in August the same year, another at Wexford, weighing 59 lb. In 

 July, 1850, one from Belfast Bay, and in 1851, one from Skerries, now in the 

 University Museum. 



The figure is taken from the stuffed example in the British Museum. 



The size to which it attains is questionable, but it has been recorded up to 

 6 feet in length. 



JLuvarcs iMPEHi.vLis (young). 



