Class IV. TOPE. iil 



the upper lobe extending greatly beyond the 

 lower, almoft in a ftrait line. 



The body was round and fhort : the nofe (hort 

 but fharp pointed : the eyes large, and placed im- 

 mediately over the corners of the mouth, which was 

 fmall, and not very diftant from tha end of the 

 nofe. 



The teeth are triangular, and fmall for the fize 

 of the fifh, and placed in three rows. 



The back afh color : the belly white : the 

 ikin univerfally fmooth. 



The antients ftyled this fifh AA^y^rsI, and Vulpes^ 

 from its fuppofed cunning. They believed, that 

 when it had the misfortune to have taken a bait, it 

 fwallowed the hook till it got at the cord, whicli 

 it bit olF, and fo efcaped. 



They are fometimes taken in our feas^ and have 

 been imagined to be the fifh called the Threjher^ 

 from its attacking and beating the Grampus with 

 its long tail, whenever that fpecies of whale rifes 

 to the furface to breathe. 



Syioy? Ariji, Hifi. an. Lib, The Tope. JVil. lah. 51. 45. Tops. 



VT. r. II. Rail fyn, pifc. 20. 



Canicala? Plinii Lib. IX. c. Squalus naribus ori vicinis ; 



46. forarainibus exiguis ad 0- 



Le chien de mer, cu Cani- culos. Arted. fyno7i. 97. 



cule. BeloTiy 6^. Squalus galeus. Zz?/.^;/^. 399. 



Canis galeus. Rondel, '^'j']. Grono'v. Zooph. No. 142. 



Ge/ner pifc. 167. 



O 



NE that was taken on our coaft the lafl year Size. 

 weighed twenty feven pounds, and its length 



was 



