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Title: The illustrated natural history (microform)
Identifier: cihm_50039 (find matches)
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Subjects: Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles
Publisher: London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
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I.rn'LK DOG-KISH.â.'.Vi///ii(iii emnciilK liilL'K 1)00 FISH.â.Vci//'iMm cululua. This fish is plentiful on our coasts, especially in the southern extremity of England, and is often thought a great luiisance by iishermen, whose bait it takes nistead of the more valuable fish for which the hook was set. It generally remains near the bottom of the water, and is a voracious creature, feeding upon crustaceans and small fish. It olten follows the shoals of migrating iish, and on account of that custom is called the Dog-fish. Generally its ilesh is neglected, but when properly dressed, it is by no means unpalatable, and is said to bo sometimes trimmed and dressed in fraudulent mutation of more valuable fish. The skin of this and other similar species is rough and file-like, and is employed lor many purposes. The handles of swords, where a firm hold is recpiireil, are sometimes bound with this substance ; and joiners use it in polishing the surface of fine woods so as to bring out the grain. It is also employed instead of sand-paper upon match boxes. The egg of this species is very curious in form and structure, and is otten louml on the sea-shore, flung up by the waves, especially after a storm. These objects are faniiliar to all observant wanderers by the sea-shore, under the name of mermaid's purses, sailor s purses, or sea purses. Their form is oblong with curved sides, and at each angle there is a long tendril-like appendage, having a strong curl, and in form not unlike the tendrils of the vine. The use of these appendages is to enable the egg to cling to the growing seaweed at the bottom of the ocean, and is to prevent it Irora being washed away by the tide. After a storm, however, when the agitated waves have torn up the beds of marine wrack and other seaweeds that usually lie in still calmness beneath their sheltering waters, and especially during the time of low tide, these objects may be found lying upon the mieovcvcd and dripping shore, their strong but delicate \ .If I '. 'â Ji â 'hi 4 i'.iA t f ate ^:z^..,: -4

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