OF CARTILAGINOUS FISHES. 
From this conformation of the mouth, a great part of 
the cartalaginous fifties are obliged to turn their back, 
downwards in laying hold of their prey ; a circumltance 
that requires time, and affords an opportunity to the 
fmaller fith of making their efcape. They devour every 
kind of fifli or fifth, and to their extraordinary voracity, 
had Nature granted the power of eafily apprehending 
their food, the other kinds of fith nriult long ago have 
fallen a facrifice to their gluttony *. 
* Idem ibidem. 
