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upon his back, by the weight of the lead id 

 the handle, and confequently has no power 

 to efcape. Often the iron points are bent dou- 

 ble without entering the animal ; and fome- 

 times they are thrown out by his ftruggles, 

 from not having penetrated deep enough, and 

 leave him to efcape with his wound. This 

 we faw happen to a large porpoife while he 

 was fwimming amidft a fhoal of his fpecies fo 

 numerous as to darken the fea; when, inftant- 

 ly, every individual of them abandoned the 

 fhip, not to protect or confole their wounded 

 brother, but, according to the unfriendly habit 

 of thefe hideous and rapacious animals, to 

 purfue him as their prey. The flying fifh, 

 the fhark, and the dolphin, are all ufed, by the 

 failors, as food. The lhark is a moft ftupid 

 animal — unlike other fifties he dlfregards be- 

 ing feen, and files not from people who appear 

 before him, nor is intimidated at things fal- 

 ling near to him, or even upon him in the 

 water. Does this arife from a deficiency of 

 nervous fenfibiiity, or from a confcioufnefs 

 that he Is armed agalnft the objeds he com- 

 monly meets ? By throwing out to him oc- 



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