CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 1751; ftj 



dead: both dorfal fins are fhort, and of the 

 colour of pewter : the length of the pefloral 

 fins exceeds a foot : they have parallel margins, 

 but a joint on the infertion ; they are white 

 below, and above of the fame colour with the 

 back : the ventral fins are- joined near the 

 anus ; they are white, fhort, and cylindrical at 

 their infertion : the anal fin is of the fame co- 

 lour with the dorfal fin, and is very fhort : 

 the tail is two feet long, and lead coloured* 

 This whole animal fhines, and is covered with 

 a fine fkin. The heart and the eyes were in 

 motion a long while after it feemed to be dead. 

 One of its bowels was like a long firing of 

 pearls, the joints of which were of the fize 

 of acorns, and contained thick blood. On 

 one of the peftoral fins many chryfalides ?nn- 

 cronat(Z y thorace imbricato y were fixed. But 

 the pilot-fifties which accompanied the Squalus 

 canicula did not attend on this fpecies. 



May the 2 2d, 35 14' S. L. 



It is in this latitude, that a feaman rauft be 



more cautious than any where elfe, for the 



leaft cloud often changes the fined weather into 



I 2 fuck 



