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which it f.--<ls It U aU. known |,\ the nam.- of M..NK i IMI. in allusion to th-- rounded head, 

 which was thought to bear .so m<- i>->ernl>lance to tin- shax.-n ciown ,.f a monk; and in some 

 places is rail.-! the SH M:K \l \\ l>ecaU8e it seenis to I..- one of (h<- .-..niL-.-tinj links between the 

 sharks and tin- ra\, ami has riianx ..f tin- characteriMirs of Uith. On som.- part.s of thf 

 Kni;li-h < - oa-ts it i> known a^ th,- KiNOHTOIC. 



It has many of th-- haliit.s of the tlat-fishc 

 Hi mij into In inn Id; uul of tli< -M Li-d s<> 

 <.f th.-s.. mo\.-m.-nts it di>turls many solt-s. pla 

 the Silliu- localttll l| i' Wap* III' in Up as lli. \ ,- 



of them, eo that it is really a il.-structiv.- fish \i\mn a coast. 



It is most common upon the southern shores, and has there been taken of considerable 



-i/.-. attaining | !. K: (A I i IB ;i- : p .MI,.]-. I nfortunately, ill.- ll---h i- now th.-u-lit t.. ! 



kf-|.iiii: nt-ar tin- iMittom, ami even 



tn-cal ii^ .-ntiif IH!\ . ,\s in the course 

 , tlo:nnli-i->, and ntht-r llat-lish.-s that inhahit 

 >r to escape, and devours great quantities 



A N.tKl. Kl>ll. g4ttM ntffW. 



too coarse for the table, though it was formerly in some estimation, so that the creature is 

 useless to the fisherman, who can only avenge himself for his l.,^.-> l.\ killing the destrurtivi- 

 creature, but cannot repay hims-If by i-atiiu' r s>Iling it. The skio, however, being rough, 

 is of some small us> in the arts, beini: <lriHi and employed, like that of the dog-fish, for polish- 

 ing joiner's work, and it is in some places manufactured into a sort of shagre-n. 



The eyes are set rather far back on the upper part <>f the head, and a little behind each 

 eye is the temporal oritiVe, very large, in proj>rtion to the dimensions of the fish, very long, 

 and set transversely on the head. The wide mouth, which oj>ens in front of the head and not 

 below as in the sharks, is furnished with rather long and sharply-pointed teeth. The color of 



