ioo OSBECK'S VOYAGL 



A large fort of fifh, called the Springer irt 

 Swedifh, fliewed its back fins above the water 

 near the fliip. 



April the 7th, 3 47' N. L. 



We caught the dogfjh to-day, which is 

 reckoned the moft voracious animal of prey. 

 Authors have already described feveral kinds 

 of them, though not very clearly. The rea- 

 fon thereof is probably that lome forts are no- 

 where to be found but in great fcas, where 

 they can be but feldom examined by inquifitive 

 people ; whence all forts are called by the 

 fame name, becaufe they all look alike at a 

 di fiance. Very feldom does an opportunity 

 oifer of comparing feveral forts together, that 

 fpecifk marks might be ascertained, which 

 otherwife is difficult, as their fins do not con- 

 stitute the only difference. The dog-fifh mod 

 commonly met with about the line is 



The Squalus conduct us, Squalus Canicula, 

 (Linn. Syft. Nat. p. 399. n. 8.) or the greater 

 dog-fifh. 



Its 



