CELGIV. BASKING SHARE =9 
They vifited the bays of Caeruarvonfbire and An- 
giefea in vaft fhoals, in the fummers of 1756 *, and 
a few fucceeding years, continuing there only the hot 
months, for they quitted the coaft about Michael- 
mas, as if cold weather was difagreeable to them. 
They had nothing of the fierce and voracious na- 
ture of the fhark kind, and were fo tame as to fuf- 
fer themfelves to be ftroked: they generally lay mo- 
ionlefs on the furface, commonly on their bellies, 
but fometimes, like tired fwimmers, on their backs. 
Their food feemed to confift entirely of fea plants, 
no remains of fifh being ever difcovered in the fto- 
machs of numbers that were cut up, except fome 
ereen ftuff, the half digefted parts of algae, and the 
like, 
At certain times they were feen {porting on the 
waves, and leaping with vaft agility feveral feet out 
of the water. 
Their leneth was from three to eleven yards, but 
the laft was a rare fize. 
Their form was rather flender, like others of the 
fhark kind. 
The upper jaw was much longer than the lower, 
and blunt at the end. ‘The mouth placed beneath, 
and each jaw furnifhed with numbers of {mall teeth : 
thofe before were much bent, thofe more remote in 
the jaws, were conic and fharp pointed. 
On the fides of the neck were five large tranf- 
verle apertures to the gills, 
* Some old people fay they recolleé the fame fort of fith 
yifiting thefe feas in vaft numbers about forty years ago. 
On 
Food, 
Teeth, © 
