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SELACHE 
BASKING SHARK. 
SXJNFISH. SAII.FTSH. HOE-MOTHER, in Orkney. 
It was not known to Linnaeus, in the tenth edition of his System 
Turtos’s Linnaeus. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 164. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 503. 
Tarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii. 
Squalws maximus, 
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p. 518, but not his figure. 
Cuvier. 
Lacepede. 
Gray; Catalogue Br. Museum, 
Selnclie maximus, 
Squale Tresgrcmd, 
CetoThinus maximus. 
p. 129. 
It is rightly observed by Cuvier, and also by Mr. Yarrell, 
that tbe difficulty of taking a correct likeness of this and other 
large fishes, as well as other marine animals, as they lie irreg- 
ularly on the beach when dead, perhaps imbedded m sand or 
mud, or from the manner in which they float, will account for 
the incorrect representations of them which exist; to which must 
be added the thronging of a crowd of spectators, who press on 
the object, or stand in the way of the draftsman. It is also 
difficult to preserve the larger examples of such fishes, with 
