Note p — BOOK IV. (continued 2)

Thus against the Crocodile, which can catch its Prey only before it, not on one Side. So the Shark, of which take my often-commended Friend Sir Hans Sloane’s Observation: It hath this particular to it, with some others of its own Tribe; that the Mouth is in its under Part, so that it must turn the Belly upwards to Prey. And was it not for that Time it is in turning, in which the pursu’d Fishes escape, there would be nothing that could avoid it; for it is very quick in Swimming, and hath a vast Strength, with the largest Swallow of any Fish, and is very devouring. Sloane’s Voyage to Jamaica, p. 23.