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SWORD FISH. Class IV. 



XVI. 



SWORD 



FISH. 



The upper jaw extending to a great length, 



hard, (lender, and pointed. 

 No teeth. 



Eight branchioftegous rays. 

 Slender body. 



68 . S I c I L I A n S if lag. Ariji. Hifl. an. lib. 

 II. c.lj. VIII. c. 19. Op- 

 pi an Halieut. lib. II, 462. 



in. 442. 



Xiphias. Ovid Halieut. 97. 

 Xiphi-as, i. e Gladius Plinii 



lib. XXXII. c. 2 *. 

 L'Heron de mer, ou grand 



Efpadaz. Belon, 102. 

 Xiphias. Rondel. 251. 

 Xiphias, i. e. Gladius pif- 



cis. Gefner fife. 1049. 



Caii of ufc. 104. 

 Schwert fiiche. Scbonevelde, 



35. Sword Fifh. Wil Icth. 



161. Rait fyn. fife, 52. 

 Xiphias. Arted. fynon. 47. 

 Xiphias Gladius. Lin. fyfl. 



43 2 - 

 Swerd-fifk. Faun. Suec. No. 



3°3- 



THIS fifh fometimes frequents our coafts, but 

 is much more common in the Mediterra- 

 Place. man fea, efpecially in the part that feparates Italy 

 from Sicily, which has been long celebrated for 

 it: the promontory Peforus*, now Capo di Faro, 

 was a place noted for the refort of the Xiphias, and 

 poflibly theftation of the fpeculatores, or the perfons 

 who watched and gave notice of the approach of 

 the fifh. 



* Athena us, 314. 



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