Class IV. COMMON ANGLER, 121 



" they come within reach, when it fprings on 

 them*." 



The fifhing frog grows to a large fize, fome be- De3CR i*« 

 ing between four and five feet in length , and we 

 have heard of one fallen near Scarborough^ whofe 

 mouth was a yard wide. The fifhermen on that 

 coaft have a great regard for this fifh, from a fup- 

 pofition that it is a great enemy to the dog fifh -f-, 

 and whenever they take it with their lines fet it at 

 liberty. 



It is a filh of very great deformity : the head 

 is much bigger than the whole body, is round at 

 the circumference, and flat above : the mouth of a 

 prodigious widenefs. 



The under jaw is much longer than the upper : 

 the jaws are full of flender fharp teeth : in the roof 

 of the mouth are two or three rows of the fame : 

 at the root of the tongue, oppofite each other, are 

 two bones of an elliptical form, thick kt 7 with 

 very (Irong fharp teeth. 



The noftrils do not appear externally, but in 

 the upper part of the mouth are two large orifices 

 that ferve inftead of them. 



* Cicero, in his fccond book ~De Natura Deqrum, gives 

 much {he fame account of this fifh : Ranee autem marina di- 

 cuntur obruere fefe arena fulere, et tnQveri prop} aquam, ad 

 quas, quaji ad efca?n, pijces cum accejferint y confici a ranis, at- 

 que confumi. 



t The bodies of thefe fierce and voracious iiih are often 

 found in the ftomach of the Fijhing Frog, 



On 



