toz BASKING SHARK. Class IV, 



and Scotland^ and thofe of Caernarv&nfhir& and 

 Anglefea \ but having never been confidered in any 

 other than a commercial view, has till this time 

 remained undefcribed by any Englijh writer •, and 

 what is worfe, miftaken for and confounded with 

 the luna of Rondeletius^ the fame that our Englijh 

 writers call xht fun-fijh. 



The IriJJj and IVelcb give it the fame name, from 

 its iving; as if to fun itfelf on the furface of the wa- 

 ter; and for the fame reafon we have taken thp 

 liberty of calling it the hajking Jhark, It was 

 long taken fpf a fpecies of whale, till we pointed 

 out the branchial orifices on the fides, and the per-r 

 pendicular fite of the tail. 



Thefe are migratory fifh, or at left it is but in 4 

 certain number of years that they are feen in multi- 

 tudes on the }Fekh feas, though in moft fummers 

 a fingle and perhaps ftrayed fifh appears. They 

 inhabit the Northern feas, even as high as the ar5fic 

 circle. 



They vifited the bays of Caernarijonjhire and 

 Anglefea in vaft fhoals, in the fummers of 1756*, 

 and a few fucceeding years, continuing there only 

 the hot months, for they quitted the coaft about 

 Mcbaeimas^ as if cold v/eather was difagreeable to 

 them. 



They appear in the Firth of Clyde ; and among 



* Some old people fay they recollect tlie fame loxt o£ £iih 

 vifiting thefe feas in vail numbers about forty ye^s ago. 



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