Of Fijher. 
Part L 
weight. The fharpnefs and multitude of his. Teeth efpe- 
cially, and the widnefs of his Mouth, are remarkable. They 
will often bite off the Legs or Arms of thofe that ven- 
ture into the Sea in a Calm 5 and fometimes fwallow them 
on 5 s up whole, (a) 
arb * Their Teeth generally (land in a fix-fold Row 5 but 
Bettonius obferves one with four Rows only. There are 
fome other Fifhes which have as many, and the Scate hath 
more : but take their Number and Bignefs together, and 
they are more confiderable. In S ept alius s Mufaum, there 
is one, faith Ter^agi, ( in words at length ) with a thou- 
fand and two hundred Teeth. But neither hath this here, 
nor had any other that I ever read of, near half fo 
many. 
Of his Optique Nerves , Rondeletius obferves , That 
they are not, as in other Animals , but plainly Cartila- 
ginous. 
The Goldfmiths in France, faith the fame Author, fet the 
Teeth of the Sharks ( which there they call Serpents Teeth ) 
in filver-Cafes 3 and the Women hang them about their 
Childrens Necks, to make them breed their Teeth the bet- 
°f ter. The Brain of the Sharif , faith Wormius, (b) is highly 
commended by fome for the Stone. The people of IJland, 
faith the fame Authour, boil them for Lamp-Oil. They 
are found fometimes upon our own Coaft, near Corn- 
wall. 
The LONG-SNOUTED SHARK. So I call it , be- 
caufe it is much longer, than in the above-mentioned 3 fo 
as to be as it were the beginning of a Horn. The Body 
of this likewife, in proportion, is much lhorter and thicker. 
Rondeletius feems to give the Figure of this particular 
Species. 
An - There is no fort of Animal, faith Ariftotle, (c) about 
mar us, which hath a double Row of Teeth. So that he never 
faw a Shark^ y nor divers other Fifhes that are commonly 
known, and fuch as are not unlikely to breed about 
Greece. That he includes Fiihes, is plain by the Con- 
text. 
The GILL-FIN of the long-fnouted Shark. 
The JAWS of a SHARK. There are fix or feven 
pair of thefe here preferved. Terzagi mentions one pair 
in 
