. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . e. The saw-Jish has its nose lengthened into along flat gristly body, armed on each side,with from twenty-four to twenty-seven slen-der teeth; the lips are covered with rouohhard tubercles instead of teeth; an aperturebehind each e3^e for the discharge of water;two dorsal fins ; a narrow slip cut half waydown the inner side of the ventral fins ; theend of the tail obliquely truncated ; and thefish is about, twenty feet in length. VOL. IV. G If. 42 NATURAL HISTORY It inhabits all seas from Greenland to thoseof the Brasils; it is also fou
. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . e. The saw-Jish has its nose lengthened into along flat gristly body, armed on each side,with from twenty-four to twenty-seven slen-der teeth; the lips are covered with rouohhard tubercles instead of teeth; an aperturebehind each e3^e for the discharge of water;two dorsal fins ; a narrow slip cut half waydown the inner side of the ventral fins ; theend of the tail obliquely truncated ; and thefish is about, twenty feet in length. VOL. IV. G If. 42 NATURAL HISTORY It inhabits all seas from Greenland to thoseof the Brasils; it is also found in those ofAfrica, and of the East-Indies. Some wri-ters have misnamed this fish, or confoundedit with the sword-fish, (which see properly-characterised under the head xiphias, amongthe spinous fish.) Anderson, Crantz, andother writers on the natural history of Green-land and Iceland, make it the enemy of theseals and whales ; asserting that it eats onlythe tongue of the latter, leaving the rest ofthe huge carcase a prey to the morses ant)fiea JiH)\ y?,i,/5J//.)fl
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