I0 6 WHITE SHARK. Class IV. 



a reddifh color, and about two feet long, but 

 which fell off when the fifti was brought to the 

 furface of the water, and left a white mark on the 

 fkin. 



42. White, hun'ia*. Arifi. Hiji. an. Lib. 



V. c. 5. IX. c. 37. 

 Aa(/.vv. Oppian Halieut, I. 



370. V. 36. 

 Kaqxctfias Kvav. At ben. Lib. 



VII. p. 310. 

 Lamia ? Plinii, Lib. IX. c. 24. 

 Le chien carcharien ou Perlz 



fifch de Norvege. Belo?i y 



52, S 7 . 



Lamia. Tiburo. Rondel. 489, 



39°- 

 Canis Carcharias. Gefner pifc. 



173- 



White Shark. Wil. Iah. 47. 



Raiijyn. pifc. 18. 

 Squalus carcharias. Sq. dorfo 



piano dentibus ferratis, 



Lin.fyfi. 400. 

 Arted. Jynon. 89. Grono<v> 

 No. 143. 



Size. 



THIS grows to a very great bulk, Gillius fays, 

 to the weight of four thoufand pounds ; and 

 that in the belly of one was found a human corps 

 entire, which is far from incredible, confidering 

 their vaft greedinefs after human flefh. 



They are the dread of the failors in all hot cli- 

 mates, where they conftantly attend the fnips iri 

 expectation of what may drop overboard; a man 

 that has that misfortune perifhes without redempti- 

 on : they have been feen to dart at him, like gud- 

 geons to a worm. A matter of a Guinea fhip in- 

 formed me, that a rage of fuicide prevailed among 

 his new bought flaves, from a notion the unhap- 

 py creatures had, that after death they fhould be 



reftored 



