Sqjjalus Priftis. Saw - jijh , 
Nofe lengthened into a long flat 
griftly body, armed on each fide 
with from twenty-four to twenty- 
feven {lender teeth: lips covered 
with rough hard tubercles inftead 
of teeth: an aperture behind each 
eye for the difcliarge of water: 
two dorfal fins: a narrow flip cut 
half way down the inner fide of 
the ventral fins: end of the tail 
obliquely truncated: length up¬ 
wards of twenty feet. 
Inhabits all feas, from Green¬ 
land to thofe of the Brafils: is 
found in thofe of Africa, and 
of the Eaft Indies : is frequently 
mifnamed the Sword-fijh . Crantz, 
Anderfon, and other writers on 
the Nat. Hift. of Greenland, and 
Iceland, make it the enemy of 
feals and whales and aflert, that 
it eats only the tongue of the 
latter, leaving the reft of the 
huge carcafe a prey to the 
Morfes, and Sea-Birds. 
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