io* BASKING SHARK. Class IV. 



and Scotland, and thofe of Caernarvon/hire and 

 Anglefea ; but having never been confidered in any 

 other than a commercial view, has till this time 

 remained undeicribed by any Englijh writer ; and 

 what is worfe, miftaken for and confounded with 

 the luna of Rondeletius, the fame that our Englijh 

 writers call the fun-ffh. 



The Irifh and Welch give it the fame name, from 

 its lying as if to fun itfelf on the furface of the wa* 

 ter; and for the fame reafon we have taken the 

 liberty of tailing it the bajking Jhark. It was 

 long taken for a fpecies of whale, till we pointed 

 out the branchial orifices on the fides, and the per- 

 pendicular fite of the tail. 



Thefe are migratory fifh, or at left it is but in a 

 certain number of years that they are feen in multi- 

 tudes on the Welch feas, though in mod fummers 

 a tingle and perhaps ftrayed fifh appears. They 

 inhabit the Northern feas, even as high as the arclic 

 circle. 



They vifited the bays of Caernarvon/hire and 

 Anglefea in vaft fhoals, in the fummers of 1756% 

 and a few fucceeding years, continuing there only 

 the hot months, for they quitted the coaft about 

 Michaelmas, as if cold weather was difagreeable to 

 them. 



They appear in the Firth of Clyde •, and among 



* Some old people fay they recoiled!: the fame fort offifli 

 vifiting thefe feas in vaft numbers about forty years ago. 



the 



