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accounted for, when we say that it was a female, and had in 

 its belly four young ones, each about eight-and-twenty or 

 thirty inches long. Seventeen quarts of oil were obtained 

 from the liver. As it is supposed, with reason, that in this 

 tribe of ferocious animals, the female is invariably the largest, 

 I am induced to conclude, that the specimen which I observ- 

 ed near forty years ago, might have been a full-grown male, 

 and that the difference between the two sexes is inferiority of 

 size with regard to the male, but with a front in every re- 

 spect larger than that of a female." 



" In the third volume of the late edition of Mr. Pen- 

 nant's Tour in Wales, the Rev. Hugh Davies has furnished 

 some further observations on the Beaumaris Shark, and a 

 comparative outline is given of that species and of the Por- 

 beagle Shark." 



The latter species appears to be by much the more com- 

 mon fish of the two. 



The vignette represents the sort of hand-line used at sea 

 on the Hampshire coast for Mackerel and Whiting fishing, 

 and is usually called the Portsmouth pattern. 



