GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
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The Bony shes or Teleosts never attain such
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dimensions.
The swift Tunny may reach 10 ft;}’Ïand the
Sword—sh with its sword about 12 ft.
The *freShWater
Catsh (Silurus) of the Danube also reachesa length 0f;10
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ft. or more, and a weight of 400 lb. The
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the ofcial records had only a length of 4% ft., and a weight
of 70 lb. , On the other hand, the Arapaima gigàs of South
America reaches a length of 1 5 ft. With a Weight to
correspond.
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The niost remàäkablesh in many ways is Regalecus or“
PIG; 9.—_—The King of 1eHerrmgs(Regalecus glçsrie) has perhaps "been
taken for the sea-serpent;
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the
“
King of the Herrings”,” WhichoCcasioàlly drifts into…
the littoral Waters of Northern
has been caught
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close to the coast of North—East England.
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length of 20 ft.», one example is said to have
over
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'z 5 ft., but the peculiarity is that its thickness does not exceed f ‘
ins., whilst its height or depth is only about a foot; *HenceÏ
the shermen have called it the Dar—sh, and We need hardly.
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that it has been seen lying ”on its*s‘ide. “When it
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wriggles thr0ugh theWateriävith the rst dorsal n 0r crest
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on its head above the surface—, ”it may haVe givenÏ_riSe to
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at least some of‘theStories0fthe Séa—Serpet:_
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The age of shesis as "diverse—as«their size.
The small