OF FISHES. 
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MONK FISH. 
The Monk Fish, or Angel Shark, increases 
to a vast bulk, and sorpetimes weighs nearly 
one hundred pounds. The colour of the 
back and sides is darkish, and the belly white. 
It is exceedingly ferocious, and has even been 
known to attack mankind. Thp fins are 
very large, and bear some distant resem- 
blance to wings; the eyes are small, but 
the head is large. It subsists chiefly on 
flounders and other sorts of ground fish: and 
is often caught on the coasts of Great Britain. 
The shores of Cornwall are often much 
frequented by this species of fish,, but their 
flesh is not considered good for food, being 
hard, and of nn indifferent flavour. It seems 
to be of a middle nature between the ray and 
the shark. 
