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SHARK. 



Er. Zool. Iir. 77. 

 Er. Doulag, Cuit. 



T70UND in great multitudes on the Scotiijh 

 -^ coafts •, and when dried a great article 

 of food with the common people. Called 

 in Sky the Blind-hive^ and is fiippoled to be 

 a great reftorative. 



Br. Zor.l III. 78. 

 Er. Cairban. 



'T~'HE greateft of the genus ; fometimes 

 ^ above 36 feet long : the length of one 

 I found dead near Loch-Ranfa^ in Arran^ 

 was 27 f. 4, firft dorfal fin 3, fecond i, pec- 

 toral 4, ventral 2 feet long, upper lobe of 

 the tail 5, lower 3. 



They appear in the Firth of Clyde^ and 

 among the Hebrides, about the moiith of 

 Juney in fmall droves of feven or eight, but 

 oftner in pairs ; and continue in thofe feas 

 'till tlie latter end of July^ and then difap- 

 pear : they fwim very deliberately, with the 

 two dorfal fins above water : are very tame, 

 and fearkfs of mankind : will permit a boat 

 to follow them without accclcr.itino: their 

 morion, 'till it comei almoft within contact, 



when 



