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THE WHITE SHARK. 



mouthy goggling eyes, and large and bristly fins, his whole aspect is an 

 emphatical picture of the fiercest, deepest and most savage malignity. 



It is a fortunate circumstance, for those who would avoid its attacks, 

 that its mouth i^ so situated, under the head, that it has to throw it- 

 self on one side iu order to seize its prey ; for its velocity in the water 



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is so great, that nothing of whicli it was once in pursuit, would other- 

 wise he able to escape its voracity. 



These creatures are the dread of sailors in all the hot climates ; for 

 they constantly attend ships, in expectation of what may be thrown 



