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" which I had formerly seen and made a draw- 

 " ing of; but each part of this bore an exact 

 "proportion to the corresponding parts of the 

 " other, except that the nose of this, although 

 " above one third a larger animal than the 

 " former, was smaller in every respect, being 

 " more abruptly tapering, but blunt and shorter, 

 " as it measured but four inches and eight 

 " tenths from the eye to the end, whereas the 

 " snout of that smaller fish was six inches in 

 " length from the end to the eye. This was a 

 " vast animal j its general circumference seemed 

 " greater in proportion to its length, than that 

 " of the former, but it was particularly so at the 

 '■ region of the abdomen. This is readily ac- 

 " counted 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 larger, I am induced to con- 

 " elude, that the specimen which I observed 



* In the description of the Porbeagle Shark, in the Memoirs 

 of the Wernerian Society, p. 150, it is stated, that " No fewer 

 than thirty young ones appeared in the belly of this female, fully 

 formed, and apparently ready for exclusion," whereas four only 

 were found in the female of this species. H. D. 



