Class IV. PORBEAGLE. 117 



The Porbeagle. Borlafe Cornwall, 265. Tab. 26. 49- Po^ea 



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^TpHE figure of this fifh, engraved after a draw- 

 ing by the Rev. Mr. J ago *, is preferved -in 

 Doctor Borlafe's Natural Hiftory of Cornwall 



As it is not attended with any account farther 

 than that it is a Cornijh fifh, and a fmall fpecies 

 of (hark, we are obliged to form the beft defcrip- 

 tion we can from the print. 



The nofe appears to be very long, (lender to- 

 wards the end, and fharp pointed. The mouth 

 placed far beneath \ the body very thick and 

 deep, but extremely (lender juit at the fetting on 

 of the tail. 



The firft back fin is placed almoft in the mid- 

 dle, the other pretty near the tail, 



The belly very deep : the ventral and anal fins 

 fmall. 



The tail bifurcated ; the upper fork a little 

 longer than the lower. 



* This gentleman was minifter of Loo, in Cornwall, and 

 appears to have been well acquainted with the Hiftory of 

 Fifh. He communicated figures of feveral of the Cornijh fifh,, 

 with a brief account of each to Petl-ver, at whofe in- 

 stance, as Doctor Derham tells us, in the preface to Mr. Ray's 

 Itineraries, p. 6g, he added them to the Synopfis Avium e: 

 pifcium, p. 162. A few others of his drawings are alfo pre- 

 ferved in the Natural Hiftory of Cornwall, and feem to be 

 executed with (kill and accuracy. 



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