n6 NATURAL HI S T O R Y of N R WA T. 



HaaeMa.ren. The Haae-Maefen is "ftill larger, of the fame Chape and make 

 with the preceding ; of a blue and green colour, like a Mackarel. 

 The tail of this kind is more than two fathoms wide; by which one 

 may form an idea of the fee of the body, which, according to 

 the account of many eye-witnefles, is eight or ten fathoms long ; 

 for which reafon this fpecies is by feme reckoned of the Whale 

 kind, but it is truly and properly a Shark ; efpecially as it is a 

 cartilaginous Fifh, and has no bones, excepting one in the back, 

 and that but fmall in proportion to its fize. The liver is but 

 little bigger than that of the Haae-Kiaeringen, with which this 

 Fifh is confounded by fome ; but thofe who are judges eafily 

 make a diilinclion. This Fifh is ftuck with a harpoon, and will 

 fome times accidentally fall into a Salmon-net, and carry it off; 

 but he is often fo frightened that he dares not ftir, and is killed 

 without much trouble, and dragged on fhore with ropes, as 

 they do the Haae Kiaeringen. They tow it behind the boat if 

 they want any thing more than its liver ; otherwife they take 

 that out, and throw the body into the fea. This Haae-Mseren 

 feems to be the fpecies which Willoughby fpeaks of, Lib. iii. 

 §. i cle Pifcibus cartilagineis longis, cap. i. p. 47, in thefe words : 

 a Canis carcharias feu Lamia Rondoletii galeorum omnium maxi- 

 iC mus eft, nam aliquando ad tantam magnitudinem accrefcit 3 

 (i ut currui impofita vix a duobus equis vehi poffit. Vidimus^, 

 cc inquit Rondoletius, mediocrem 1000 librarum pondere. Nicen- 

 a fes vero teftatos fibi effe refert Gillius, fefe ifliufmodi pifcem 

 ic cephTe ad 4000 librarum accedentem, 8c quod magnam admi- 

 a rationem habet, in ejufdem ventre folidum hominem reperifle, 

 ic fimileque quid Maffilienfe-s fibi narraffe, comprehend iffe inquam, 

 Ci aliquando, in quo loricatum hominem inveniffent." This con- 

 firms my former conjecture, namely, that it was this Fifty which 

 fwallowed up the prophet Jonah. To this tribe alfo belongs the 

 mofl furprizing and deformed Fifh, called Kors-Haae, the Zygsena, 

 or the Hammer-headed Shark ; which, as it belongs to this 

 fpecies, I will not omit, tho' it is feldom feen in the Northern fea. 

 The body of this kind is like the Haae-Kisering before defcribed ; 

 but from the form of his head it is called the Kors-Haae : its 

 fhape refembles a crutch, and there are two great eyes at the ends 

 of the tranfverfe part of the crofs, at fome diftance from the 

 head. 



Hav-Hcft. Hav-Heft. See Val-Ros. 



f^ The Helle-flynder, the Turbot, HippoglofTus Rondeletii & 



Gefneri, which is otherwife called Queite, and alfo Styving, is 

 formed like another Flounder ; the belly, ot lower fide, white; 



but 





