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SWORD FISH. 



Class iV 



xvr, 



SWORD 

 FISH. 



The upper jaw extending to a great length, 



hard, (lender, and pointed. 

 No teeth. 



Eight branchioftegous rays. 

 Slender body. 



68. Sicilian Bi^iac. Ariji. Hiji. an. lih. 



11. c. 13. VIIL f. 19. O/. 



pian Halieut. lih, II. 462. 



lit. 442. 

 Xiphias. 0-uid Halieut. 97. 

 Xiphks, i. e. Gladius Plinii 



lib. XXXII. c. 2 *. 

 L'Heron de mer, ou grand 



Efpadaz Belon, 102. 

 Xiphias. Rondel. 251. 

 Xiphias, i. e. Gladius pif- 



cis. Gef?icr fife. 1 049. 



Caii opufc. 104. 

 Schwert-fifche. Schone^velde^ 



35. Sword Fifh. Wil. Icth. 



161. Raii fyn. pifc. 52. 

 Xiphias. Arted. fynon. 47. 

 Xiphias Gladius. Lin. Jyjt, 



432- 

 Swerd-fi{k. 



303- 



Faun, Suec. No, 



THIS fifh fometimes frequents our coafts, but 

 is much more common in the Mediterra- 

 Flace. nean fea, efpecially in the part that feparates Italy 

 from Sicily^ which has been long celebrated for 

 it: the promontory Pelorus^^ now Capo di Faro., 

 was a place noted for the refort of the Xiphias^ and 

 poiTibly the ftation of \ht /peculator es^ or the perfons 

 who watched and gave notice of the approach of 

 the filb. 



* Athencsi'.s, 314. 



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