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Its length is five feet : the body is of a blueifh 

 grey above, and white below : the head is 

 flat, with a fhort, half-round forehead : the 

 lower jaw has four rows of ferrated teeth : 

 the mouth is lunular, large, about an inch 

 from the point of the head : the tongue is 

 thick, round before, and dentated : the eyes 

 were covered on both fides with a /kin after its 

 death, excepting one crofs ftripe, which was to 

 be feen in the middle. The ventral fins are 

 near the anus, they are broad, fhort, blunt, 

 and in fome meafure connected : the anal fin 

 is fhort, and in the midway between the anus 

 and the tail. At the tail there is a triangular 

 cavity. The perioral, ventral, and anal fins 

 are white, with black points ; the others are 

 of the fame colour with the body, but they 

 have white points. It is viviparous, and is 

 caught on very large hooks, which have a joint 

 not far from the hooks, fattened to ftrong 

 ropes : on this hook you put a large piece of 

 bacon, or half a chick, or fomething which 

 the fifh fwallows greedily. It is very tenacious 

 of life ; and will move about, though its head 

 or tail be cut off; from the wound the blood 

 gufhes as out of a fpout; nay even if the 

 bpwels be taken out of its belly, it lives more 

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