146 TOPE SHARK. Class IV. 



lieved, that when it had the misfortune to have 

 taken a bait, it swallowed the hook till it got at 

 the cord, which it bit off, and so escaped. 



They are sometimes taken in our seas, and 

 have been imagined to be the fish called the 

 Thresher, from its attacking and beating the 

 Grampus with its long tail, whenever that 

 species of whale rises to the surface to breath. 



7- Tope. Kvoov ? Arist. Hist. an. Lib. foraminibus exiguis ad ocu- 



vi. c. 11. los. Arted. synon. 0,7- 



Canicula? Plinii Lib. ix. c. Squalus Galeus. Lin. syst. 



46. 399. Gm. Lin. 14g2. 



Canis galeus. Rondel. 377- Le Milandre. Block ichth. iv. 



Gesner pise. 167. 2Q. tab. 118. 



The Tope. Wil. Ichth. 51. Le Squale Melandre. De la 



Rail syn. pise. 20. Cepede Hist, des Poissons. 



Squalus naribus ori vicinis; i. 237. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



ONE that was taken on the Flintshire coast 

 weighed twenty-seven pounds, and its length 

 was five feet; but they sometimes grow to a 

 greater size, some, according to Artedius, weigh- 

 ing an hundred pounds. The color of the 

 upper part of the body and fins was a light 

 cinereous ; the belly white ; the nose was very 

 long, flat, and sharp pointed, beyond the nos- 

 trils semitransparent ; the nostrils were placed 



