pursues hfs course along the bottom, as easy and un. 

 concerned as if it were the open air. The rivers he most 

 frequents are very deep, and where they are clear ? this 

 alFords an astonishing sight. 



An animal at' this size and make, must be one of 

 the strongest in the world. It therefore required from 

 nature no swiftness, either to avoid pursuit, or to over- 

 take its prey, as it was designed to fec<l chiefly on ve 

 getables. The manner of its feeding on them is this : 

 when he walks into a river he seldom looks about till 

 he is near the middle. Here he seeks for the larger 

 water-herbs, particularly for the root of a large water- 

 lilly. People, from a boat on the surface, frequently 

 see this. He roots up these with his nose, like a hog, 

 and his mouth and throat being very wide, swallows 

 them up in vast morsels half chewed. 



But he has frequently occasion to breathe: in order 

 to which, when feeding at his ease, his custom is, every 

 thirty or forty minutes to rise to the surface of the 

 water. This he does by a spring from the bottom, 

 made with all his feet at once. Having taken a little 

 fresh air, and looked about him, he drops to the bot- 

 tom again. 



Of all the inhabitants of the deep, those of the Shark- 

 kind are the most voracious. The smallest of this 

 tribe is not less dreaded by greater fish than many 

 that seem more powerful ; nor do any o them seem 

 fearful of attacking animals far above their size. But 

 the great white shark joins to the most amazing rapi. 

 dity, the strongest appetites for mischief: as heap, 

 proaches nearly in size to the whale, he far surpasses 

 him in strength and celerity, in the formidable ar 

 ra,ngement of his teeth, and his insatiable desire of 

 plunder. 



The White Shark is found from twenty to thirty feet 

 long, Some assert, they have seen them of four 

 thousand pounds weight. The mouth is enormously 

 wide, as is the throat,, and capable of swallowing a 

 man with great ease; but its fwniture oi' teeth is still 



