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about three feet deep, and ten broad; whalebone 

 about 300 laminse on each side, the longest about 

 18 inches in length; the under jaw about 15 feet 

 long, or one third of whole length of the animal; 

 sulci about two dozen in number; two external blow- 

 holes; blubber on the body, two or three inches 

 thick; under the sulci none. 



In the Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, a de- 

 scription of a whale, corresponding in its dimen- 

 sions, at least, with the Balsena Boops, has been 

 given to the public by Mr. P. Neill, Edinburgh.* 

 This whale was stranded on the banks of the Forth, 

 near Alloa, and had been considerably mutilated 

 before Mr. Neill had an opportunity of examining 

 it. It is considered by him, a Balsena Rostrata. 

 From his valuable paper, part of the above descrip- 

 tion is taken, which differs so much from a Rostrata 

 noticed below, particularly in its larger dimensions, 

 and in the greater proportion which the head bears 

 to the body, that it would appear to belong either 

 to the Balsena Boops or to an undescribed species. 

 From the inaccuracy of the sketches of almost all the 

 whales hitherto figured, the naturalist is rather 

 plagued than assisted by them. As such, the fig- 

 ures given by La Cepede and others, can scarcely 

 be of any service, in determining the species of this 

 whale. 



* Vol. 1. p. 201. 



