jo6 WHITE SHARK. Class IV. 



a reddifh color, and about two feet long, but 

 which fell off when the fifh was brought to the 

 furface of the water, and left a white mark on the 

 (kin. 



Aa^/i? ? Jri_ft. Hift. an. Lib, Lamia. Tiburo. Rondel. 489, 



V. c. 5. IX. c. -^-j. 39^ 



AaiMT^. Oppian Balieut, I. Cams Carchanas. Gc^^r /z/r. 



Kijx^^iitv. Athen.Ub. WMtt; Shark /F.7. /^^. 47. 



VII. /. 310. ^ Raufyn.pzfc,^ 18 



Lamia r P//;./;, Lih. IX. r. 24. ^qualus carchanas. Sq. dorfo 



Le chien carcharien ou Ferlz P^.^^^, , ^^^^^^^^ ^'^'^^^'• 



£fch de Noivege. Behn, /'i''-^^" ^^^V 



c^ Arted. Jynm. &g. ijronov. 



5^' "^7- Zooph. No. 143. 



Size. A | ^ HIS grows to a very great bulk, GilUus fays, 



1 to the weight of four thoufand pounds •, and 



that in the belly of one was found a human corps 



entire, which is far from incredible, confidering 



their vafl (^reedinefs after human fle(h. 



They are the dread of the failors in all hot cli- 

 mates, where they conftantly attend the fhips in 

 expedation of what may drop overboard ; a man 

 that has that misfortune perifhcs without redempti- 

 on : they have been feen to dart at him, like gud- 

 geons to a worm. A m.after of a Guinea fhip in- 

 formed me, that a rage of fuicide prevailed among 

 his new bought (laves, from a notion the unhap- 

 ]py oreatures had, that after death they (hould be 



reftored 



