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WHITE SHARK. 



Squalus Carcharias. -S'. albido-cinereus, rostro subacuto, dentibu^ 

 triangularibus serratis. 



Pale-cinereous Sharks with subacute snout^ and triangular ser- 

 rated teeth. 



Squalus Carcharias. S, dor so piano, dentibus serratis. Lin. 



Sysf. Nat. Arted. gen. 70,. syn. 98. 

 Canis Carcharias seu Lamia. Rondel. Gesn. Aldr. Will. SfC. 

 Lamia. Arist. Plin. <^c. 

 White Shark. Penn. Brit. Zool, 

 Requin. Bomare diet, d'hist. nat. Cepede. SfC. 



The great or white Shark, so remarkable for its 

 Vast size and its powers of destruction, is an in- 

 habitant of most parts of the globe, though much 

 more frequently seen in the warmer than the colder 

 latitudes ; it is said to reside principally in the 

 depths of the ocean, from whence it rises at inter- 

 vals in order to prowl for prey, and is considered 

 as the most voracious of all the inhabitants of the 

 deep. It arrives at the length of more than thirty 

 feet, and is of a somewhat thicker or broader form 

 than most of the genus : the head is of a depressed 

 shape, and broad ; terminating in front in an ob- 

 tusely pointed snout : the mouth is of vast width, 

 and furnished on the margin of each jaw with from 

 three to six rows of strong flat, triangular, sharp- 

 pointed, and finely serrated teeth, which are so im- 

 bedded in their investing cartilage as to be either 

 raised or depressed at pleasure : the tongue is 

 broad, thick, and cartilaginous, and the throat ex- 

 tremely wide : the eyes, as in most of the genus> of 



