basking shark. 
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Sxl’ctfk tn^the 
pot to ft, p ^ nioimng, it was seven at night befoie they 
ir, hV'sioJt »■'>“ >>“2 
caughtrLenied to i. ^hen 
then rolled itself in thj^net '* mouthful of herrings, and 
the nets, which wLe nertheT I" ^ 
ropes five times round it ’ It ^dierl the 
the men would have run a verv ha T I or 
This is the largest of the lives.” 
that from its size, and partly from S hahk!^ V 
«.<! it was only so Svtlhe r'"^‘\‘'''w'’“ 
Pennant, that it was ilisen A ^ ^ British naturalist 
b.. in i its cLXstTe:™; rthfSnVVs; 
however, we may take ^lian as our authority ^its 
S:Z:ZnetX:rht ”7^' 
Pomet, to whom w^shall hatm oTcaSon " French writer 
says that there are three sorts of i 
might be reckoned a Whale of Th ’ T’ of which 
-o are very „„eh smaller and „ Z?' ^He .a.or 
Lacepede doubted whether the 5Vhitf Sha!k T 
an equal size: hut there is ^ ^each 
nttaining anything lihe die !«« hsh as 
case with the example of Baskino- Shn V ’ '"'hich was the 
Mr. Yarrell. One was taken in rl, 1^ T" 
one feet eight inches, W wSich orl ' 
the circumference of body great ev ’""as taken; and 
enormous length. Laceped! speaks ""o^ on 
thirty-three feet in length, and twenty-fonr fceTin dre 'T“'‘‘ 
We are not to place credit, however in V '“''S''""' 
assertion, that cartilaginous fishes ar-e eve.- ’ ' Haller’s 
Hmi. . their sire, rPirst LiroViZSI;? “■“ 
P- 463;) for some species are never other tin-. ii ’ 
at first starting into existence ate of considerable’ '’ 7"’ 
»e ™ver met with above a certain 
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