92 PORBEAGILE.  Cyaiy 
Xl. The POR BE 4 cle 
The Porbeagle. Borlafe Cornwall, 265. tab. 26. 
BAHE figure of this fith, engraved after a draw- 
ing by the Rev. Mr. Fago*, is preferved in 
Doctor Borlafe’s Natural Hiftory of Cornwall. 
AAs it is not attended with any account farther 
than that it is a Cornifh fifth, and a fmall fpecies of 
fhark, we are obliged to form the beft defcription 
we can from the print. : 
‘The nofe appears to be very long, flender towards 
the end, and fharp pointed. The mouth placed far 
beneath; the body very thick and deep, but extremely 
flender, juft at the fetting on of the tail. 3 
The firft back fin is placed almoft in the middle, 
the other pretty near the tail. 
The belly very deep: the ventral and anal fing 
fmall. | a 
The tail bifurcated ; the upper fork a little longer 
than the lower. : 
* This gentleman was minifter of Loo, in Cornwall, and ap- 
pears to have been well acquainted with the Hiftory of Fith, 
He communicated figures of feveral of the Cornifh fith,. with a 
brief account of each to Petiver, at whofe initance, as Doctor 
Derbam tells us, in the preface to Mr. Ray’s Itineraries, p. 69, 
he added them to the Synopfis Avium et pifcium, p. 162. A few 
others of his ‘drawings are alfo preferved in the Natural Hiftory 
ef Corazwail/, and feem to be executed with fkill and accuracy. 
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