Place, 
126 SWORD FISH. ClafIV. 
It wanted the pectoral, ventral, and caudal fins: 
the dorfal fin was extremely low, and thin, extend- 
ing the whole length of the back very near the tail. 
The anal fin was of the fame delicacy, and ex- 
tended to the fame diftance from the anus. 
Genus XVJ. The upper jaw extending to a great 
length, hard, flender, and pointed. 
No teeth. 
Fight branchioftegous rays. 
Slender body. Sworp Fisu. 
Ie. The S° WO RD & Sie 
Eigias. Arift. Hift. an. lib. ii, 
C. 136 Vill. c. 19. Oppian. 
Halieut. lib. ii. 462. iii. 442. 
Xiphias. Ovid. Halieut. 97. 
Xiphias, 7. e. Gladius Phiaii lib. 
XXXil. ¢. 2.* 
Xiphias, i. e. Gladius pifcis. 
oon pife. 1049. Cati opufe. 
104. 
Schwert-fifche. Schonevelde, 35. 
Sword-fih. Wil. Icth. 161. 
Rati fyn. pifc. 52. 
L’Heron de mer, ou grand Ef- Xiphias. drted. /ynon. 47. 
padaz. Belon. 102, Xiphias Gladius. Lin. ff. 432. 
Xiphias. Rondel. 251. Swerd-fitk. Faun. Juec. No. 303. 
HIS fifth fometimes frequents our coafts, but 
is much more common in the Mediterranean 
fea, efpecially in the part that feparates Jtaly from 
Sicily, which has been long celebrated for it: the 
promontory Pelorus*, now Capo di Faro, was a place 
noted for the refort of the Xzphias, being poffibly 
the ftation of the /peculatores, or the perfons who 
watched and gave notice of the approach of the fifh. 
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