CagtV.. WOLF FS F. i21 
The circumference of the head was feventeen 
inches, at the fhoulders twenty, but near the tail 
only four and a half. 
Its weight was twenty pounds and a quarter, 
The head is a little flatted on the top: the nofe 
blunt ; the noftrils very fmall; the eyes fmall, and 
placed near the end of the nofe. 
The teeth are very remarkable, and finely adapted 
to its way of life. The fore teeth are ftrong, coni- 
cal, diverging a little from each other, ftand far out 
of the jaws, and are commonly fix above, and the 
fame below, tho’ fometimes there are only five in 
each jaw: thefe are fupported within-fide by a row 
of leffer teeth, which makes the number in the up- 
per jaw feventeen or eighteen, in the lower eleven 
or twelve. 
The fides of the under jaw are convex inwards, 
which greatly adds to their ftrength, and at the fame 
time allows room for the large mufcles with which 
the head of this fifh is furnifhed. 
Teeth, 
The dentes molares, or grinding teeth of the under _ 
jaw, are higher on the outer than the inner edges, 
which inclines their furfaces inward : they join to 
the canine teeth in that jaw, but in the pai are fe- 
parate from them. 
In the centre are two rows of flat ftrong teeth, 
fixed on an oblong bafis upon the bones of the pa- 
late and nofe. 
Thefe and the other grinding teeth are often found 
foffil, and in that ftate called Bufonites, or Toad- 
Stones ; they were formerly much efteemed for their 
ie imaginary 
