Clafs IV. YOO Pie 87 
from its attacking and beating the Grampus with 
its long tail, whenever that fpecies of whale rifes 
to the furface to breathe. 
VIL. he oe by pO oP 0K, 
Kuwy? Arif. Hift. an. ib. vi. TheTope. Wil Icth. 51. Rat 
Syn. pifer 20. 
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Canicula? Phinit ib. ix.c. 46. Squalus naribus ori vicinis ; 
Le chien de mer, ou Canicule. foraminibus exiguis ad ocu- 
_ Belon. 65. los. Arted. fynon. 97. 
Canis galeus. Rondel. 377. Squalus galeus. Lin. fy. 399- 
Gefner pife. 167. Gronov. Zooph. No. 142. 
NE that was taken on our coaft the laft year 
weighed twenty-feven pounds, and its length 
was five feet ; but they grow to a greater fize, fome, 
according to Artedius, weighing an hundred pounds. 
The color of the upper part of the body and fins 
was a light cinereous; the belly white. 
The nofe was very long, flat, and fharp pointed, 
beyond the noftrils femitranfparent. The noftrils 
were placed very near the mouth. 
Behind each eye was a {mall orifice. The teeth were 
numerous, difpofed in three rows, {mall, very fharp, 
triangular, and ferrated on their inner edge. 
The firft back fin was placed about eighteen inches 
from the head ; the other very near the tail. 
The tail finned beneath, the upper part ended 
in a fharp angle. | 
This fpecies is faid by Rondeletius to be very fierce 
and voracious, even to purfue its prey to the edge of 
the fhore, 
Size; 
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