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Rh perhaps three or four inches in length. Those used in taking Sharks are formidable-looking weapons; some are a foot or fifteen inches long, exclusive of the curvatures, and not less than an inch in diameter. They are such frightful things, that no fish, less voracious than a Shark, would approach them. In some the marks of the Sharks teeth are numerous and deep, and indicate the effect with which they have been used."

The accompanying engraving represents many forms of hooks made of all these materials, as well as a net, a barbed spear, and a line armed with Shark's teeth, all copied from specimens