SHARK. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body oblong, growing less towards the tail. 
Skin very rough. 
Mouth placed beneath the head, and set with several rows 
of sharp teeth. 
Five apertures on each side the neck. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
SauALUS Carcharias. Sq. den tibus triangular ibus serratis. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. p, 1498. 
With triangular serrated teeth. 
Squalus capite subdepresso, rostro sub- 
acute, pinnis pectoralibus maximis. 
Gron. Mus. 1. 138. Zooph. 143. 
Squalus corpore cinereo, dorso lato. 
Bloch , 1. p. 33. n. 11 9. 
White Shark. . . Will. Ichth. p. 4 7. t. B. f. 7. Penn. 
Bril. Zool. 3. p. 106. n. 42. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. 5. p. 322. pi. 148. 
The shark is by far the fiercest and most voracious of 
the finny tribe ; he is formed for destruction, and, 
having a very strong appetite for mischief, is con- 
stantly seeking to gratify it. Thus he prowls about 
in the warmer parts of the ocean, to the great ter- 
