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was SI feet, height 8^ feet, and 19 feet round, the mouth 
5| feet wide, extent of the tail 6 feet 9 inches, weight P> 
tons. At day break of the 3rd of January, 1809, this 
enormous fish was discovered at half cable’s length from 
Penryn Quay, steering towards the town ; and three boats 
W'ere manned to attack it. It was brought into shallow 
water, and by favour of the ebbing tide subdued. There 
was no oil except in the liver, from which 198 gallons 
were taken. Pennant represents his Basking Shark to ho 
of rather a slender form ; but the measured dimensions and 
figure of the specimen here referred to, represent a very 
bulky fish, with the snout somewhat depressed, the bran- 
chial orifices reaching from the neck to the throat, pectoral 
fins higher than I ever saw in a Shark, an anal fin, a raised 
ridge at the termination of the lateral line, and without the 
mark of a temporal orifice. 
The second specimen I have designated the Rashleigh 
Shark — Sq. Kashleighamis (Transactions of Lin. Soc., vo). 
14, p. 9]) in honour of William Rashleigh, Esq., of Mena- 
hilly, who kindly favoured me with the original sketch. It 
Was 29 feet 4 inches long, 24 feet round, fork of the tail 7 feet, 
the weight. 4 Tons ; mouth 21 feet wide. In the drawing, 
Ut >like the former species, the eyes are in front, so as to be 
°Pposed to a spectator standing before the fish ; the snout is 
ra ther small and narrow, and somewhat turned up, the head 
l ‘ e ep, spiracles reaching from neck to throat. The first dor- 
Sa l fin elevated, the second small and near the tail ; no anal 
ho, nor mark of a temporal orifice. It may he questioned if 
'his be not the Sq. Peregrinus of Blainville. 
Kicked DOG-. Sq. Acanthias. Jenyns, p. 505. Yarrell’s 
Hr. F., vol. 2, p. 400. Abundant. 
HAMMER HEAD. Zyijw.ua Malleus. Yarrell’s Br. F„ 
v ol. 2, p. 400. Three or four species are known to have 
been confounded under this name; and consequently a rni- 
•mte description, with reference to a figure if possible, will 
he necessary to identify any one that may fall into the 
hands of an observer. One specimen is on record, as 
having been taken in Cornwall, but whether the tiue Z. 
Wallens is uncertain. 
— Aiustcliis Equestris, Fauna Italica ? 
A Shark supposed to he of this species was taken with a 
me by one of our Fishermen. It was a male, the length 54 
•“ches . and laid by the side of a Toper (Sq. Galeus) of the 
‘ aa,e length, the distinction between these species is easily 
Recognized. In all the proportions it is a stouter fish, with 
&>eat diilhrence of physiognomy ; the distinction consisting in 
10 greater prominency of the eye, in this respect exactly re- 
