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together, each confiding of five rays, thick, fleftiy, and of a pale 

 reddidi colour. The tail is large, not forked at the end. The 

 vifcera of this fifh were taken out, and the cafe diftended and 

 dried, to fhew its interior ftructure ; in which Hate it makes a 

 moll extraordinary and uncommon appearance: the dreadful 

 apparatus of teeth, the large gills, and the tranfverfe bone-like 

 cartilages, being all in view, and wonderful to the beholder. 

 It was prefented to me, together with a fmall one, by my refpeclful 

 friend, Edivard Cook, of Blackmore-Hall^ Efq; who afTures me it is 

 not unfrequent on that part of the coaft. 



6. The Wolf-Fi/h is fometimes taken by the fifhermen of Holy- 

 IJland (f). It is a fingular made fifh. The head is large and de- 

 prefTed ; the mouth prodigioufly wide ; a vaft number of large 

 and ftrong teeth in the jaws, on the palate, and deep in the 

 fauces. The eyes are on the top of the head, large and promi- 

 nent, of a fierce afpect. The noftrils have each- a double aper- 

 ture. The body is of a comprefled fhape, of a greyifh-brown 

 colour, elegantly variegated with black on the fides, tranfverfely. 

 In handling it is as lubricous and flippery as an eel. It hath no 

 ventral fins. The back-fin is very long, extending almoft to the 

 tail ; the pedoral fins large and rounded ; the pinna am long and 

 low ; the tail of a fquare figure. It is a bold voracious fifh, de- 

 ftroying in an inftant what it lays hold on with its frightful 



(f) Lupus marinus. Charlet. Fife. p. 31. n. 2. fequenti obfervatione. 



" Mire vorax mordaxque animal eft, & dentibus fuis terribile. Anchoram enim fi prae- 

 " hendat mordicus, fonum edit & ftrepitum, & veftigia confpicua relinquit. Ex dentibus 

 " ejus molaribus fingere folent Gcmmarii fraudulent! Lapides Bufonios, & magno pretio 

 " vendere." 



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