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blue and white shark, are also caught on the 

 coast, often seizing the conger, ling, or cod, as it 

 is pulled in by the fishermen, and at other times 

 will wantonly bite the lines in half; they are not 

 fit for food, their skin only is made into shagreen, 

 and the livers melted for oil. 



At Jersey during the summer of 1862 there 

 was a great scarcity of all kinds of fish, from the 

 fact of several large sharks having been cruising 

 oft' the coast ; they were most bold in the way, 

 and let boats come near them, but were too 

 cautious to be taken. 



THE SHARP-NOSED HAY. 



Ivaia oxyrhynchus and the skate arc caught all 

 round the coasts of Britain, but iu the greatest 

 abundance off the shores of Devon and Cornwall 

 from the Start to the Land's End ; some arc of 

 monstrous size, as much as eight feet in breadth, 

 but such monsters are rare. Thev are exceed- 



