Class IV. P O R B E A G L E. 117 



The Porbeagle. Bwlafe Corn^walk 265. Tab, 26, 49- ^^^^^^' 



'np HE figure of this filh, engraved after a dravv- 

 ing by the Rev. Mr. Jago *, is preferved in 

 Dodlor Borhfe's Natural Hiftory of Cornwall 



As it is not attended with any account farther 

 than that it is a Comijh fifh, and a fmali fpecies 

 of fhark, we are obliged to form the beft defcrip-^ 

 tion we can from the print. 



The nofe appears to be very long, flcnder to- 

 wards the end, and fharp pointed. The mouth 

 placed far beneath ; the body very thick and 

 deep, but extremely flender juft at the fetting oa 

 of the tail 



The firft back fin is placed almoft in the mid- 

 die, the other pretty near the tail. 



The belly very deep : the ventral and anal fins 

 fmall. 



The tail bifurcated ; the upper fork a little 

 longer than the lower. 



* This gentleman was miniHer of Loo, in Corn'ujall, and 

 appears to have been well acquainted with the Hillory of 

 Fiih. He communicated figures of feveral of the Corni/h iifli, 

 with a brief account of each to Petlucr^ at whofe in- 

 £ance, as Doclor Derham tells us, in the preface to Mr. Rafz 

 Itineraries, p. 6(^, he added them to the Synopfis A^jium ct 

 pi/ciumj p. 162. A few others of his drawings are alfo pre- 

 ferved in the Natural Hillory of Qoi'nrjjalU and feem to be 

 ^yecuted with fkiii and accuracy. 



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