Food. 
Size. 
to the tip of the tail, twenty and one half. 
220 WiyOe Ef of Th Sra Clafs IV. 
ble to beat out its fore teeth, and then kill it by 
ftriking it behind the head. Schonevelde relates, that 
its bite is fo hard that it will feize on an anchor, and 
leave the marks of its teeth in it; and the Danife 
and German names of Steenbider and Steindeiffer, ex- 
prefs the fenfe of its great itreneth, as if it was ca- 
pable of crufhing even ftones with its jaws. 
It feeds almoft entirely on cruftaceous animals, 
and fhell fifh, fuch as crabs, lobfters, prawns, muif- 
cles, fcollops, large whelks, &c. thefe it grinds to 
pieces with its teeth, and fwallows with the lefier 
fhells. It does not appear they are diffolved in the 
ftomach, but are voided with the feetes, for which 
purpofe the aperture of the anus is wider than in 
other fifh of the fame fize. 
It is full of roe in February, March, and April, 
and {pawns in May and une. 
This fifh has fo difagreeable and horrid an ap- 
pearance, that nobody at Scarborough except the 
fifhermen will eat it, and they prefer it to holibut. 
They always before dreffing take off the head and 
ikin. 
The fea wolf grows to a large fize: thofe on the 
Yorkfbire coatt are fometimes found of the length of 
four feet, and, according to Dattor Gronovius, have 
been taken near Hitland feven feet long, and even 
more. ‘That which we examined was three feet two 
inches and an half from the tip of the nofe to the 
end of the tail: the leneth of the head was eight 
inches, from the gills to the vent, ten; from thence 
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