monkfish. 
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and SoTd no!r- 
uiishment. of a stronger kind ” B 1 0 d"? 
» ^lrfe«‘’“TE” 'm r l«g-l.'of iev™ 
nian and’ ^ad seen it about the length of 
^ith us commolW'^^ liundred and sixty pounds; but 
b’-eadth at four to five feet, Kdth a 
length. Tb. pectoral fins considerably exceeding half the 
bnt most so depressed, 
The head termination of the ventral fins, 
aharp hooko^ u terminal, with rows of short, 
the rows- n lengthened order, and intervals between 
and havin.. ? t ‘^outh, 
amall senar f Wocess projecting from it. Eyes 
‘=ovei;d wi r^T^”'" 
shaped Tbl Spiracles large, half-moon- 
eyes ’g;ii ?“^'^'oxity forward,— considerably behind the 
fins widelv The pectoral 
fieing unito'rf r ’• the sides of the head without 
Sharks or Rav ' T 1 ", 
^ row of sninp!’;! ^PP®^ surface; 
circle of them b J^ack to the first dorsal fin; a half 
some examples 
fiorsd fins Ted"? «f the 
part of the b d n- fi*^® two, on the more slender 
tfie lower ba^f irregular, and 
^rey, speck !d extended than the upper. Colour sandy 
are often mottl^ below. In young examples, which 
'rhite line or green, there is sometimes a 
fifil-grown exa shoulders. I have seen a 
back 1’ ® the usual line of spines along the 
much like whar^*^^^ pectoral fins are 
do not t - the Skates, but the jointed 
®top short and "1"'" ^'’t 
fio the’ ve^ar im O 
fonnd to nos<!P i- - minute dissection it has been 
tacted als^ in tl ®trncture, such as Monro de- 
-fiere th ^‘>"tanel or opening 
brain is covered only with the firm skin, as in the 
