OF FISHES. 379 



fishermen, on fir ft hauling the net, were in rapturous expectation 

 of an extraordinary and unufual draught of falmon, but on- 

 drawing it near to the more, great was their confirmation and 

 furprize on the fight of this dangerous creature, which made 

 the water fly about their ears to a prodigious height. It is fup- 

 pofed to have followed the Eaft India fleet to Edenburgh -Frith, and 

 to have directed its courfe fouthwards, in forward and eager 

 purfuit after the falmon. When the Shark is thus intent upon 

 his prey, his teeth are erect, but at other times they lie flat. 

 Two or three pilot-fillies are for the moft part with him, in the 

 quality of Gujlatores, commonly tailing his food before him. He 

 has alfo fome other fmall fillies which bear him company, with 

 tranfverfe folds on the head and back, clinging clofc to his fides, 

 waiting for fuch morfels as he mall let fall from his mouth. 



5. That remarkable fifh, the Rana Pifcatrix, or Frog-Fi/Jj, Toad- 

 Fi/h, or Sea-Devil (ej, was found alive on the fliore near Crejfivell t 

 defer ted by the tides, in the beginning of the year 1763. It was 

 four feet and a half long. It is a fifh of a terrible afpect ; the 

 head more than equal in fize to the reft of the body, the mouth 

 bearded, exceedingly wide ; a triple irregular feries of teeth in 

 the jaws, fauces, and root of the tongue, turned inwards for 

 holding its prey. The eyes are on the top of the head, very 

 large. Near the extremity of the roflrum, are two long, flender 

 bodies, like tentacula ; alfo three fhort ones on the backhand many 

 Ihort flefhy pinnules on the fides. With thefe it is faid to ex- 

 plore and allure its prey, by vibrating them at pleafure. It hath 

 fome protuberant appendages about the roftrum, the eyes, and 

 other parts of the head. It hath two ventral fins, {landing near 



(e) Rana Pifcatrix. Char let. Fife. p. u. n. 4. cum Icone optima & diflc&ione, p. 74. 

 Will. Pifc. p. 85. t. E. i. Salv. Hid. Aquat. p. 140. Dale. Hariu. App. p. 422. n. 4. 



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