The Scottish Naturalist. 145 



the penis appeared near 7 feet when out of the body. The 

 whole length of the creature was near 52 feet, and the circum- 

 ference of the biggest part of it about 30 feet. The nether jaw 

 was only 3^ feet about, and had 48 teeth in it ; the upper jaw 

 had sockets lined with cartilage to receive them." The same 

 book contains an original plate of figures of whales, with the 

 following description : " This plate I found in a book of original 

 drawings of Sir Robert Sibbald's, which I met with accidentally 

 some years ago. All the explanation I could make out was as 

 follows — Fig. 1, the original drawing is marked in Sir Robert's 

 own hand, A whale cast in at Rosyth Castle. Figs. 2 and 3, 

 marked in Sir Robert's hand, A Spermaceti whale ; and in ano- 

 ther hand, Whale at Monyfeeth, Feb. 23, 1763. Side, fig. 3, 

 but it did lay half upon its side, that one eye and a little of the 

 belly was sanded; 57 feet long, and 56(36/) round; both 

 under and all the skin blackish-blue, very smooth, and as thick 

 as a bull's, and all white fat within and next the skin. Back 

 fig. 2, to represent the tail. Fig. 6, the Pcdiculus Ccii of Boc- 

 cone, — Rcchcrches d Observations Naturellcs, pp. 293 and 287. 

 See Sir Robert Sibbald's description of it, Phil. Transact. No. 

 308." " Penes, E. W." 



The first of these figures (Plate II. fig. 1.) is far from being a 

 good representation of the Cachalot. It has, moreover, a good 

 deal of the look about it, of having been drawn, not from the 

 animal itself, but from a description given to Sibbald by some 

 person who recollected seeing it. It is however, unmistakeably 

 intended to represent the Sperm Whale. There is a waved like 

 appearance in front of, and proceeding from, the mouth, as if 

 meant to show the animal breathing by that orifice. We know 

 that Sibbald * believed that some of the Bahenidce " with horny 

 plates in the upper jaw, had no spout in their head, but two 

 nostrils like these of a horse." One of this kind he says strand- 

 ed near Burntisland. It does not clearly appear that Sibbald 

 recognized the Cramond animal, or the one figured on his 

 plate, to be ordinary Sperm whales, as well as the other (Plate 

 II., fig. 2 &-3,) which he designates correctly enough, although 

 the shape of the head in this is not very well represented. 

 Perhaps this may have been because of the two figures, this one 



* Hist, of Fife. 



