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member ; for, as I have before obferved, this whole tribe is 

 not oviparous, but bring forth their young alive. This has his 

 genitals in their proper place ; but whether they all have them 

 double I do not know : but as for this kind I can affirm from 

 my own obfervation, that the male has a double penis, and the 

 female a double womb. If the liver of the Gul-Haae be put into 

 a glafs veiTel in a warm place, it will diffolve to an oil, and 

 this is an excellent unguent for all wounds and bruifes. An 

 experienced apothecary allured me, that he prefers this unguent 

 to all other remedies which his fhop affords, for external 

 applications. 



The Sort-Haae, which may likewife be compared to the Sea- sort Haw. 

 Rat, differs from the former in fize and colour, for it is much 

 lefs than the Gul-Haae ; and is coal black on the back, and of 

 a blueifh colour under the belly. Hence it is called by fome 

 Blaa-Mave, and by others Morten-Blanke : the tail and the liver 

 are like thofe of the Gul-Haae; but the latter is drier, and does 

 not yield fo much oil. So much for the fmall Sharks; I now 

 come to treat of the larger fort ; namely, 



The Haabrand and Haae-Kierling, or, as the Norvegian Haabrand. 

 peafants call them, Haae-Kisering, are a fort of hermaphrodites 

 or of both fexes, according to the opinion of fome writers * 

 tho ? I will not affirm it for a certainty. The Haaebranden is 

 but 14 or 15 feet long at the moil; and is formed like the 

 other Sharks: it is of a black colour. The flefh of. this kind 

 is good for nothing ; the liver produces train oil, but inferior to 

 that mentioned above. 



The Haae-Kiseringen ; this is a third fort, larger than the pre- Haae. 

 ceding : it is 19 or 20 feet long; fo that it is as much as a Kiaring " 

 horfe can carry, even after the liver is taken out, which is 

 almofl the only valuable part of it, and often yields two casks 

 of train oil, and fometimes more? This may feem an extra- 

 ordinary quantity, but I am allured of the trutffof it, by thofe 

 who make it their bufinefs to extract it. They alfo cut off from 

 the belly of it feveral flips of fat, which are dried and fold to 

 the Uplanders, who live moflly on coarfe cheap food. The skin 

 is tann'd and prepared by the peafants for horfe-furniture, like 

 the skin of the Saelhunde. They catch thefe with a hook, which 

 they bait with a piece of {linking carrion ; there muff be an 

 iron chain of about four or five feet long fattened to the hook, 

 or elfe he'll cut the line, as they fay, with his rough skin, which, 

 as I have before obferved, is peculiar to the Shark, or more pro- 

 bably with his teeth. 



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