Class IV. TOPE. ui 



the upper lobe extending greatly beyond the 

 lower, almoft in a (trait line. 



The body was round and fhort : the nofe fhort 

 but fharp pointed i the eyes large, and placed im- 

 mediately over the corners of the mouth, which was 

 fmall, and not very diftant from the end of the 

 nofe. 



The teeth are triangular, and fmall for the fize 

 of the fifh, and placed in three rows. 



The back afh color : the belly white : the 

 fkin univerfally fmooth. 



The antients ftyled this fifh A^tteI, and Vulpes^ 

 from its fuppofed cunning. They believed, that 

 when it had the misfortune to have taken a bait, it 

 fwallowed the hook till it got at the cord, which 

 it bit off, and fo efcaped. 



They are fometimes taken in our feas, and have 

 been imagined to be the fifh called the ^Threjher, 

 from its attacking and beating the Grampus with 

 its long tail, whenever that fpecies of whale rifes 

 to the furface to breathe. 



Ki/av? Ariji. Hift. an. Lib. The Tope. Wil. lab. 51. 45. Tope, 



VI. c. II. Rail fyn, pifc. 20. 



Canicula ? Plinii Lib. IX. c. Squalus naribus ori vicinis ; 



46. foramittibus exiguis ad o- 



Le chien ds mer, ou Cani- culos. Arted. fynon. 97. 



cule. Belon, 65. Squalus galeus. Lin.Jyji. 399. 



Canis galeus. Rondel. 377. Grono<v. Zoopb. No. 142. 



Gefner pifc. 167. 



O 



NE that was taken on our coaft the lad year Size, 

 weighed twenty feven pounds, and its length 



was 



