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lefls beyond the lower, and is rounded at the end ; the 
mouth is placed beneath, and furnilhed with a vaft num- 
ber of fmall teeth. The dorfal fins are placed differently 
from thofe of the reft of the genus : the firft rifes nearer 
the head than the tail ; the fecond is much fmaller, and 
is fituated near the extremity. On the under part of the 
body there are five fins ; two pe&oral, two ventral, 
placed below the fecond fin of the back, and a fmall an- 
nal fin. Near thefe the male animal is provided with a 
double organ of generation ; and between them in the 
female, is fituated the pudendum. The oil produced by 
thele animals, is faid to be preferable to every other for 
the manufacture of wool ; and the fkin fuxnilhes work- 
men with an excellent lhagreen. 
Ihe White Shark *. T 
1* his fhark is probably the moft ravenous and formida- 
ble of the order, and grows to the immenfe weight of 
four thoufand pounds f. It was in the body of one of 
this fpecies that an entire corpfe was found ; a circum- 
stance no way incredible, when we confider their ftrong 
a ppetite for human flefh, and the amazing power of de- 
glutition which an animal of this fize muft polfefs. In all 
bot climates, it is this fpecies in particular that is the ter- 
r °t of the failors ;it is they that conftantly attend the {hips, 
Q ^2 watching 
* Squalus Carcharias, Lin. Syft. Lamia, Plinji Hift. Natj 
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