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the spots are more conspicuous, and of an oblong form. 

 The belly is of a white colour. The whole skin is 

 smooth and glossy, very thin, and closely united to the 

 fat. The forehead is high, rising abruptly from the 

 snout, proceeding afterwards for a few inches in nearly 

 a horizontal direction, until it rises into a slight eleva- 

 tion, in the anterior part of which is situated the blow- 

 hole. The mouth is extremely small, and the upper lip 

 extends a little beyond the lower. The eye is situated 

 almost below the orifice of the blow-hole, is about an 

 inch in diameter, and has the iris of a chesnut colour. 

 The individual of this species described by the Rev. 

 Dr. Fleming " had one tooth [or horn] projecting from 

 the left side of the upper jaw, and pointing a little down- 

 wards. There was no external appearance of any on 

 the right side; and in the skull itself, only a small 

 canal was observable, but no appearance of a horn. Its 

 external length was twenty-seven inches, and the re- 

 maining portion of the base inserted in the socket twelve 

 inches, thus making its whole length eighty-nine inches. 

 The weight was twenty-eight ounces. In diameter at 

 the base, where it entered the upper lip, it was one inch 

 and a quarter. It was spirally grooved or twisted, and 

 situated from right to left, and tapered from the external 

 base to the point, which was blunt and solid. The part 

 of the horn concealed in the skull was cylindrical and 

 hollow." The horn of the narwhale found on shore at 

 Frieston, a village near Boston in Lincolnshire, in 1 800, 

 was equal to one-third of the length of the animal :* in 



* This was a bicorned specimen ; it was twenty-five feet long, and the 

 teeth six feet six inches, mouth rather small, teeth spirally twisted, 

 terminating in a smooth point, as if worn down, and consist of very hard, 

 compact ivory. Front of the head much rounded and blunt. Eyes black 

 and small, considering the size of the animal. There was the rudiments 



