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The teeth of this fifh are frequently dug up in a pe- 

 trified ftate, where they are called bufonites, or toad- 

 ftones ; formerly they were much efteemed for their i- 

 maginary virtues ; they were fometimes fet in gold, and 

 worn as jewels *; the teeth of three large fillies of this 

 fpecies, were feen at Scarbot-ough, every one of which 

 were either broken or disfigured by the hard fubftances 

 which thefe animals had attempted to macerate f. 



Both the dorfal and anal fins of this fifh extend almoft 

 to the tail, which is round at the end, and fliengthened 

 by fourteen rays ; the pecloral fins referable two fmall 

 wings, being about five inches long, by feven broad. 

 The food of the wolf fifh is cruilaceous fifhes, the fiiells of" 

 which it can eafily comminute. Thefe animals are ovi- 

 parous ; and their young, for fome time after their pro- 

 du6tion from the egg, are of a greenilh caft, reCembling 

 the fea weeds among which they then refide ; focae o£ 

 lliem have been caught in the Frith of Fortbt 



* Eritilh Zo«4. \ Willough. p. li** 



