i$2 WOLF FIS H. Glass IV. 



It is a mod ravenous and fierce fifh, and when 

 taken fattens on any thing within its reach : the 

 fimermen dreading its bite, endeavor as foon as 

 poftible to beat out its fore teeth, and then kill it 

 by (hiking it behind the head. Schonevelde relates, 

 that its bite is fo hard that it will feize on an an- 

 chor, and leave the marks of its teeth in it -, and 

 the Danifh and German names of Steenbider and 

 Steinbeijfer, exprefs the fenfe of its great flrength, 

 as if it was capable of crufhing even (tones with its 

 jaws. 

 Fooc It feeds almoft entirely on cruftaceous animals, 



and (hell fi(h, fuch as crabs, lobfters, prawns, 

 mufcles, fcollops, large whelks, &c. thefe it grinds 

 to pieces with its teeth, and fwallows with the 

 iefTer fheils. It does not appear they are di.ftblved 

 in the (lomach, but are voided with the foeces, for 

 which purpofe the aperture of the anus is wider 

 than in other fifa of the fame fize. 



It is full of roe in February, March, and April, 

 and fpawns in May and June. 



This fiih has fo difagreeable and horrid an ap- 

 pearance, that nobody at Scarborough except the 

 fimermen will eat it, and they prefer it to holibut. 

 They always before dreffing take off the head and 

 (kin. 

 Sizs. xhe fea wolf grows to a large fize: thofe on the 



York/hire coaft are fometimes found of the length 

 of four fctt y and, according to Doctor Gronovius, 

 have been taken near Shetland kven feet long, and 



even 



