60 DESCRIPTION OF A SWORDFISH. 



Since the above was written, I have been in- 

 formed by Mr Bullock, that, some years since, he 

 saw in the Frith of Forth several living speci- 

 mens of a Xiphias playing in the water ; I think 

 he said seven or eight, and he was so near as to be 

 enabled to observe the dorsal fin to be undivided. 

 It is therefore highly probable, that Xiphias gla- 

 dius may also be a native of our seas, or perhaps 

 be the other sex of this. 



