ClaisIV, white shark. 107 



reftored again to their families, friends, and coun- 

 try. To convince them at left that they fhould 

 not re-animate their bodies, he ordered one of 

 their corpfes ta be tied by the heels to a rope, and 

 lowered into the fea, and though it was drawn up 

 again as fafi: as the united force of the crew could 

 be exerted, yet in that fhort fpace the fharks had 

 devoured every part but the fect^ which were fecu- 

 red at the end of the cord. 



Swimmers very often perifb by them ; fome- 

 times they lofe an arm or leg, and fometimes are 

 bit qviite afunder, ferving but for two morfels for 

 this ravenous animal : a melancholy tale of this 

 kind is related in a fVeft India ballad, preferved in 

 Do6lor Fereyh Reliques of ancient EngliJJj Poetry *. 



The mouth of this filh is furnifhed with (fome- 

 times) a fixfold row of teeth, Hat, triangular, 

 exceedingly lliarp at their edges, and finely fer- 

 rated. We have one that is rather more than an 

 inch and an half long. Grew '\ fays, that thofe in 

 the jaws of a fhark two yards in length, are not 

 half an inch, fo that the filli to which mine belono-- 

 ed rnuft have been fix yards long, provided the 

 teeth and body keep pace in their growth J. 



This dreadful apparatus, v/hcn the ?i^\ is in a 



* Fol I. 331, 

 f Rarities, 91. 



X Foflii teeth of this iiih are very frecjuent in Malta, fome 

 of which are four inches long. 



