90 Of Fifhes. Part 1. 
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 $ and fometimes fwallow them 
(a) Ligon's Up whole, (a) 
Hift.ofBaxb. Their Teeth generally ftand in a fix-fold Row $ but 
Bettonius obferves one with four Rows only. There are 
fome other Fifhes which have as many, and the Scate hath 
more: but take then Number and Bignefs together, and 
they are more confiderable. In S ep 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 Goldsmiths in France, faith the fame Author, fet the 
Teeth of the Sharks ( which there they call Serpents Teeth ) 
in filver-Cafes $ and the Women hang them about their 
Childrens Necks, to make them breed their Teeth the bet- 
Q) Out' if ter> The B ra i n 0 f t he Sharpy faith Wormius, (b) is highly 
commended by fome for the Stone. The people of Ijland y 
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 5 fo 
as to be as it were the beginning of a Horn. The Body 
of this likewife, in proportion, is much fhorter and thicker. 
Rondeletius feems to give the Figure of this particular 
Species. 
tt)Hift.An. There is no fort of Animal, feith Ariftotlz, (c) about 
tie 'ml' mar us, which hath a double Row of Teeth. So that he never 
faw a Shark.? nor divers other Fifhes that are commonly 
known, and fuch as are not unlikely to breed about 
Greece. That he includes Fifhes, 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 
