1 5 4
.God’s provi
denoe.
Swærd-fisk.
N A A U H?I ü ® O R IMtâÊmfWËÉÊÊÊâ f t
- n£&th, -'like: i^96fe,«S the Shark, formed» Tram s^be
Shark’sj ifor it.ikqbtfc round, and abdut itwo raa* three inched dik-
? meter. ^ ^hk:®oj^fcf::|| gggfi artned: wlrfa-rtefeth?,.^itHer for*ufe,.or
deface,,;^s}ha§c been iaidlhefore,' foiuheit food is! only iwhkt the.jr
fijek the? ^fetdr.*!AsHthis .Fifclsdthhs.
unaippe^^nd b©*pable;; filmierask defeading;M e% ck .©£ h^rtirig
other Fifh, the marks- of - Providence appear j i-n itspehuliar ftnlc-
tnrn J I t b&sj defenfiye ,w§Mp©asj q£ ansextisf^i^^^liz^r!j|hefe
are thick and broad lckle§, or plates of bone, -which -coyer. aItnoft
all its rib^yj; and\ fejfix© asr,! it Wefie.'?fer
plates of bone,,.ford©-;they may properly be called, are fixty-fout
in wmberj ofej,y pn€^)'§j§J’v»:hi^i i®uaai>big:ras aci#^ne|>i#tfoj phut
io^what;ovalj% i;Th^»^ay|fl%-/divtdod/intfi,lfwe^ro3«5»' The
middle tow is angular, §gd rri^isr all raiojdgrth© back j; their, - fins
and tail are very. much like 'thole of ;th©Shark.^h^.giUsi are
pretty wide, and guarded with, very.ftrQn^Shdneg*. In-all fhi^
wc may oblerve how; wifely God has farmed -evecy rraariyrf • to
answer his purpofes and -defigfijsJ.
The Swaerd-filfc} ar5;taoret properly^tbejSa Sawrfilb
Priftis, or Serra Pifcis: : Thras.Gltifitis K-mfrr T^vi. ri
becaule d§ its long and i|ag iuafe,g pr;1 5 tho 'flaish^hif 2that; It
has Pn t% upperpart ofi'the jfcontx :This hpjnjis,fef ori both fides
with finall lpines, or- .teeth, like thole of :affft^,. from whentb
it hasitsname. Thedry’d .Saw-filh, that -isj in my>: pdjTeflionis
about three feet fix inches.long, and about three .fingers brioad,
but they grow, much, largpt*..this; bebg:bkta,.yQung one; it has
twenty-five teeth in each jap, which are about a finger’s' breadth
diftant fromleach;other.. ...
This Filh isi lhaped almoft like a Spring-whale,. bnt has not
luch a fliarp head, noris-it-of : thp ;claS! of Whales, according to
the opinion of the before-quoted author, ,and: others. Pn the
contrary, he often attacks the Whale,. &nd with hislkw tears him
under the belly, lo that he makes a terrible roaring, and jumps
up above the furface -of the water, in order fp-eicape frqm it. This
Filh is but ieldom leen in our leas. Its proper refidence is about
Spitzberg, Iceland, and Greenland. See more on this head in
Martin s Spitzberg Travels, Cap. vi-, No. y. It is alio frequently
leen on the coaft of Guinea in; Africa j 'and' in the General Collection
of Voyages and Travels, Tom. vi p. g a i^ it is laid, that.
Ordmes officulorum in cute 5. junt, fèd médius tantum ordo, qui 15. circiter offl-
angulofus eft,. cujus nimirum fingiila fquàma ephippium forma refert, per
medium dorfum fecundunf totam iorigitudinëm in proçefiùm tenuem &;fecahtem aflur-
gens, .poffierius adunco. fine terminata. Lateralia’ ofliculà.ut & ventraüa rhomboidea
ctrieré plana lunt, ; ||e | Ç, Linnæus in Fauna Suec. p. tojzJk ,
OUt
B p f e j j l l ? ® T O H ^ NitJ
out vcajratlort for- thcni - l , ■ . .
H B B *5“
faw # c k fb y the idolater^ 11 S I
V- he fmajdcind of Salmon anrl .
'>utj 7f^ .^ ^ 5 t e # . i ? p m n j |k i i id , e x L . i t b e b I
■ B whpn -ifulb^Xn It is r S ! t *
:|hought to^q no ether,tip a,.,young)Salmon.
i. Torlk, the.iCpdj-filh, Mc^hua,, iive, Alellus Maior Tf,; ti
H j k e Wft "pact rf B S f e
w w m H H H B H mH I
4 %fe(6 »«ddwmp!!r qf jhom aredif
f e e^W ® >r%?S ™ ™ (hall dwell a little uwm
f c . ' “1# ’ # 4 m«^.defcriptM, aa l K
j^ne wit^i regard, ^o^t^e Herrings. r ’ ave
wdalfo theSpthtg Cod
B e<?> m. great abundance to the ftoteb,'
h a a B M M B i a W M W i and „ then f « and
They_cometn to pick up the young fry of the h J/;„
,or the Spawn, juft difcharged on the L l e f ^ / J d at Sat S
they do not.care tq bite at the hook, but are « „ 1 ; !
nuiWSin thoffi nel which they M
jnade of packthread, and work’d pretty large • Lch —
S B a i l l * •*! there are about"r5 0} th S m ^ T n te d ^
fo that the.-net may-be near a, fathom wide and fnlf ! ’ I— p p im g t s g g
M m | m w m weathfi to i ! g
lx.at with fix B e,; fo tha^,when the whole nSnhefda fix’d, th S
extend to a, length of ’48^ fathoms, i n -W fifty or fw n ty
ftthoms w a tg^ T h e y have buoys fixed to the i t s , to ftew
tAere they Ire placed. About this coaft we do not ufually extend
them topfnch a leogth, but are fitisfied with fixty or a hundred b?Sh iFiiviiilBiaiif 11 <£• J* boat with Filh. They go put k the afternoon, and fet thofe
nets, and early the jext mornmg,;they take them in again : and
they frequently find three, four, pr five hundred lar|eCod b
thhe ^ | ^ k o d r a violent^,
tbemt^ M f f l B and to driving
<?od for g itorms as at ^ pray to
each