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Of Fijhes. 
Part I. 
weight. The fharpnefs and multitude of his Teeth efpe- 
cially, and the widnefs of his Mouth, are remarkable. They 
will often bite off the Legs or Arms of thofe that ven¬ 
ture into the Sea in a Calm 5 and fomedmes fwallow them 
(a) Ligon’s up whole, (a) 
11,:}. of Barb. Their Teeth generally, hand in a fix-fold Row 5 but 
BeUonius obferves one with four Rows only. There are 
fome other Fifhes which have as many, and the Scate hath 
more: but take their Number and Bignefs together, and 
they are more confiderable. In Septalius’s Mufxum, there 
is one, faith Ter%agi , (in words at length) with a thou- 
fand and two hundred Teeth. But neither hath this here, 
nor had any other that I ever read of, near half fo 
many. 
Of his Optique Nerves, Rondeletius obferves, That 
they are not, as in other Animals, but plainly Cartila¬ 
ginous. 
The Goldsmiths in France , faith the fame Author, fet the 
Teeth of the Shark. (which there they call Serpents Teeth ) 
in filver-Cafes; and the Women hang them about their 
Childrens Necks, to make them breed their Teeth the bet- 
tcr The Brain of the Shark., faith Wormius, (b) is highly 
commended by fome for the Stone. The people of IJland\ 
frith the frme Authour, boil them for Lamp-Oil. They 
are found fometimes upon our own Coaft, near Corn¬ 
wall. 
The LONG-SNOUTED SHARK. So I call it, be- 
caufe it is much longer, than in the above-mentioned 5 fo 
as to be as it were the beginning of a Horn. The Body 
of this hkewife, in proportion, is much fhorter and thicker. 
Rondeletius feems to give the Figure of this particular 
Species. 
<y)Hift.An. There is no fort of Animal, faith Ariftotle, (c) about 
the end.' us, which hath a double Row of Teeth. So that he never 
faw a Shark., nor divers other Fifhes that are commonly 
known, and fuch as are not unlikely to breed about 
Greece. That he includes Fifties, is plain by the Con¬ 
text. 
The GILL-FIN of the long-fnouted Shark- 
The JAWS of a SHARK. There are llx or feven 
pair of thefe here preferved. Terzagi mentions one pair 
