. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. THE SWORD-FISH. SWORD-FISH, SPEAR-FISH, AND CUTLASS-FISH. Toward the sea turning my troubled eyeI saw the fish, (if fish I may it cleepe)That makes the sea before his face to flyeAnd with his flaggie finnes doth seeme to sweepeThe foamie waves out of the dreadful huge Leviathan, dame Natures his sport, that manie makes to weepe;A Sword-fish small, him from the rest did , in his throat him prickingly softly under,His wi

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. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. THE SWORD-FISH. SWORD-FISH, SPEAR-FISH, AND CUTLASS-FISH. Toward the sea turning my troubled eyeI saw the fish, (if fish I may it cleepe)That makes the sea before his face to flyeAnd with his flaggie finnes doth seeme to sweepeThe foamie waves out of the dreadful huge Leviathan, dame Natures his sport, that manie makes to weepe;A Sword-fish small, him from the rest did , in his throat him prickingly softly under,His wide abysse him forced forth to all the sea did roare like heavens all the waves were stained with filthie I learned have not to despiseWhatever thing seems small in common eyes. Edmund Spensek, The Visions cf the World, 1591. TpHE Sword-fish, Xiphias gladius, ranges along the Atlantic coast ofAmerica from Jamaica, latitude i8° N., Cuba, and the Bermudas, toCape Breton, latitude 47° N. It has not been seen at Greenland, Iceland,or Spitzbergen, but occurs, according to Collett, at the North Cape, latitud

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