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vaft creature is found in the Norwegian feas, we 

 think it not improbable but that it may have ap- 

 peared on the Scottijh coafts •, but having no better 

 authority for it, than what is above-mentioned, we 

 dare not give it a place in a Britifi Zoology, The 

 teeth of that animal are as white and hard as ivory ; 

 but whether the Exe^avrjra -^axia^ ivory bits, which 

 Straho * mentions among the articles of the Britijh 

 commerce, were made of them, or the tooth of 

 the Narhwal^ or of fome of the toothed whales, 

 is not at this time eafy to be determined. But we 

 may here remark that Solinus^ m his account of 

 Britain^ informs us that the fine gentlemen of our 

 ifland adorned the hilts of their fwords with the 

 teeth of fea beads, which were as white as ivory 

 itfelff. 



* Strabo, Lib. iv. 200. 

 f Polyhiji. c. XXXV, 



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