. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. onehave yet been found with true scales. The skin, when dried,forms an article of commerce,and is used for polishing wood;also as a covering for boxes, watch-cases, etc., under the nameof shagreen. The mouth of the shark is concealed beneathan extended snout; and it is owing to this position that thefish is compelled to turn nearly on its back when it seizes itsprey. 6. Among the larger and more formidable of the sharks arethe white shark, the basking shark, the fox shark or thresher,and the Greenland shark. The white shark is seldom
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. onehave yet been found with true scales. The skin, when dried,forms an article of commerce,and is used for polishing wood;also as a covering for boxes, watch-cases, etc., under the nameof shagreen. The mouth of the shark is concealed beneathan extended snout; and it is owing to this position that thefish is compelled to turn nearly on its back when it seizes itsprey. 6. Among the larger and more formidable of the sharks arethe white shark, the basking shark, the fox shark or thresher,and the Greenland shark. The white shark is seldom seenon our coasts, but is abundant in the Mediterranean, and isfound in great numbers in tropical climates. It is often thir-ty feet in length, and swims with great swiftness. It scentsits prey at a great distance, and it is affirmed that it is muchmore apt to attack a negro than a white man; and when both * It is the character of this warty or spiny coveiing tliat places the sharks in Agassizsdivision ofPlaroid fishes. 262 WILL80N S FIFTH KEADEE. Part ^culeij ttU. The Suaeks, continued.—1. Large-spotted Dog-fish, Snjllium cnhilus. 2. Tope, or Pen-ny-dog, Galeus mlgnrif!. 3. Blue Shark (the most common shark on our coasts), Carcha-rias glaucus. 4. Porheagle, Lnwina cornubica. 5. Small-spotted Dog-fish, .Sci/H/mto ca-nicula. 6. Picked (or Piked) Dog-fish, ^caniAjos vulgaris. 1. Smooth Hound, J/wsfeZMSloevis. are bathing together, or otherwise in its power, it generallyselects the former. Cuvier thus speaks of this shark: 7. The French name this terrible animal iiejwin, or Requiem, the restor stillness of death, in allusion to the deadly character of its habits; andwhen we consider its enormous size and powers, the strength and numberof its teeth, the rapidity of its movements, its frequent appearance duringall the turmoil and horrors of a tempest, with death and destruction appar-ent in every blast and every wave, to add to the horror of the scene by thephosphoric light e
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