Clafs IV. BASKING SHARK. Sr 
The fifhers obferved on them a fort of leech of a 
reddifh color, and about two feet long, but which 
fell off when the fifh was brought to the furface of 
the water, and left a white mark on the fkin. 
The fame perfons affert, that there were two {pe- 
cies of this fifh; a leffer fort, about two yards in 
length, which had in the mouth only three rows of 
teeth, and thofe larger than in the kind we have 
defcribed, being an inch and an half long. 
This account wedigefted from materials furnifhed 
by the Rev. Mr. Farrington, and the Rev. Mr. Wil- 
liams, Rector of Lanvair yn Hornwy, in Anglefea; 
for it has not been our fortune to fee more of this 
fifh than fragments of the fkin, jaws, and what is 
ftyled whalebone: they have now in a manner quit- 
ted the coafts, fcarce one in a fummer appearing in 
thofe feas. 
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